[talk-au] Bing

[Mike Dupont]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ian Callahan <igcallahan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would caution against any use of Bing and any relationship with
> Microsoft.
>
> Microsoft has a long history of shafting its "partners", and of using
> devious means to acquire rights and control over other peoples IP.
>
> IBM was almost destroyed through its collaboration with M$ over OS/2.
> Sybase gave away what was one of the best RDBMSs around at the time, so M$
> could have SQLServer. Where is Sybase now? If you get into bed with
> Microsoft you will catch a pox.
>
>
> I agree on that. I dont trust them at all.
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