Re: [Sheflug] Nokia and Microsoft: Match Made in the Twilight Zone

[Simon Brown <lists@xxxxxxxx>]

At Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:35:36 +0000,
Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> I was thinking something like this but not quite sure which words to 
> use.....
> 
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/71911.html
> 
> "Elop is either a Trojan horse or completely incompetent," consultant 
> and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack opined. "If the last 30 years of 
> computing history has taught us anything, it's that partnerships with 
> Microsoft tend to turn out really badly for the partner that's not 
> Microsoft." Elop's "bewildering" assertion that the telcos want a 
> third market player, he added, is "just madness."

The really interesting comment on this is here:
http://www.rasterman.com/

Simon

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