From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Tuesday 05 February 2013 00:07, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following   
   to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > On 02/04/2013 02:48 PM, Aragorn wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's not about the money, Bobbie.  Microsoft already has way more   
   >> money than they could ever spend.   
   >   
   > Now the rulers of MS might say that but I assure you they are of the   
   > ilk to which no amount of money is ever enough.   
      
   Possibly, but the money is just the bonus for them.  Their true agenda   
   sits much deeper.   
      
   > Besides they have plenty to spend money on, Pinkie, like *Taking   
   > Over the World.*   
   > Pinkie and the Brain, one is a genius and the other   
   > is insane but which is a genius and which is insane or are   
   > they both simply mad as hatters.  Or maybe as mad as Ballmer.   
      
   Ballmer, the dancing monkey...  Steve Ballmer, who once prided himself   
   on having provided the drugs and the chicks for Gates and Allen while   
   they were still in college.   
      
   I suppose that someone with his nose full of cocaine could possibly feel   
   so pumped up to do a monkey dance.  And "cocaine" rhymes with "insane",   
   in more than one way. ;-)   
      
   >> It's about power, both legal and technical.  It's about the monopoly,   
   >> the pushing of an inherently flawed-by-design operating system   
   >> completely owned and controlled by Microsoft - which gives them legal   
   >> leverage over what you can and can't do with your own computer - and   
   >> sufficiently flawed to...   
   >>   
   >>    a) keep the anti-virus/anti-malware industry - a sector which   
   >>       Microsoft itself has by now also already ventured into - in the   
   >>       running; and...   
   >   
   > And none of the anti-virus programs/systems are able to keep   
   > up with the productivity of the virus devisors.   
      
   Of course not, but that's the whole idea.  The threat has to be real   
   enough in order to be taken seriously.   
      
   >>    b) offer both governments and criminals a way to exploit the IT   
   >>       infrastructure - i.e. Microsoft plays ball with DARPA and other   
   >>       alphabet soup agencies for cyberwarfare by way of botnets, as   
   >>       well as offering shady organizations a means to conduct their   
   >>       cyber- terrorism.   
   >>   
   >> It's not difficult to understand.  There's a war going on between   
   >> good and evil, and Microsoft is simply providing for the battlefield   
   >> - or stadium, if you will - for a small fee to both parties, so that   
   >> they can manipulate the outcome of that war as Microsoft sees fit.   
   >>   
   >> Think of it like of an arms dealer, or if you will, a major bank.   
   >> They supply their wares (or their financial sponsoring) to both the   
   >> criminals and to the cops, or to both the invaders of a nation and to   
   >> said nation's defense forces.  It's called hedging. ;-)   
   >   
   > Well Microsoft sells to anyone with cash.   
      
   "Sell" is not the right word.  "Lease" would be a better choice.    
      
   -)   
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