Tech firms help tyrants keep their grip

Don’t forget!

Hey and let’s not forget Microsoft making a special trip to Denmark to threaten the Danish government if they kept fighting software patents. Of course, Microsoft denies this. And we all know the Danes are lying. After all, they have a long track record of publicly attacking American corporations for no reason at all and just saying that a CEO showed up and made threats against the economic stabilty of small countries. You know, they talk that shite all the time. It’s a Danish thing.

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Ooo! Oo! And let’s not forget the special trip to Brazil because the Brazilian government had the audacity and the temerity to say “Ya know, MS is kind of expensive, yo! Let’s switch to open source solutions which are, for the most part, free. Saves the taxpayers some money, what?”

As soon as I think Linux is ready for prime time, I’ll be making the big switch. I try once every year. This year, I got close… very close. I’m thinking next year may be the time. Bill will fall sooner or later. Years ago, IBM seemed to hold the computer world in a camel clutch. (Old pro wrestling term, if you don’t know, just Google it. I’m sure you’ll find something.) Now, they’re just another large computer company swimming in an ocean full of other large computer companies.

Microsoft, as a company, is extremely arrogant. While they have a pretty firm grip on the US, they’re really starting to lose favour overseas. Especially when they pull crap like they did in Denmark and Brazil. Every time a country or large city mentions they’re switching to open source solutions, you can bet that some suit from Microsoft is on a plane that night to that country. And I tell ya, I’m sure there’s nothing foreign leaders love more than an American businessman showing up at their door to tell them how wrong they are.