You're nitpicking and /or not reading carefully: No one said they're identical. The point was that Google and Microsoft are using all tools at their disposal against each other.
>> I think this is missing the OP's point anyways, which is that if the perception of developers is that Microsoft's platform is hurting, then they need to publicly focus on positive boosting of that platform. This is the same complaint many have had about the whole scroogled thing.
I guess you didn't read my comment, because I addressed that. But I suspect that as soon as this lawsuit is over the one and only person working at Microsoft http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics will focus all his energy on boosting their platform.
> The point was that Google and Microsoft are using all tools at their disposal against each other
No, that's exactly what I was addressing. Reporting Microsoft for breaking their own browser ballot is not comparable to, say, a long running plan to hobble Google by antitrust rulings in the US and the EU[1] or an ad campaign modeled after negative political ad campaigns. So portraying this as some sort of no holds barred fight when one side is hardly playing is rather disingenuous.
Microsoft has improved in so many ways over the late 90s, it's kind of appalling to see what their obsession with Google does to them. I really don't understand it, except maybe just the old guard remaining in positions that can still make these things happen.
And please stop suggesting that we think that all the Windows engineers were retasked to file legal briefs in Oracle v Google. That's, again, exactly the point I was addressing. It's difficult to be excited about those engineers' work when their legal and marketing teams seem to think that the only way to "win" is to make the other guy look worse than they themselves are acting.
It's difficult to be excited about those engineers' work when their legal and marketing teams seem to think that the only way to "win" is to make the other guy look worse than they themselves are acting.
Do you only feel that way for Microsoft? Because you could say the same for Google, Apple, Oracle...and virtually any huge company that such department.
My last comment in this thread anyway, I give up with you.
>> I think this is missing the OP's point anyways, which is that if the perception of developers is that Microsoft's platform is hurting, then they need to publicly focus on positive boosting of that platform. This is the same complaint many have had about the whole scroogled thing.
I guess you didn't read my comment, because I addressed that. But I suspect that as soon as this lawsuit is over the one and only person working at Microsoft http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics will focus all his energy on boosting their platform.