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raganwald on July 3, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Life and death of Microsoft Kin: the inside story

Even without the Kin debacle, if I were being paid $1,000 an hour to advise partners about their relationship with Microsoft, I would suggest they look at PlaysForSure. It is NOT news that Microsoft will screw its partners, and they know it when they go into business with Ballmer.

Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth... but he never trusted Hyman Roth!

hga on July 3, 2010 [–]

"'You made a mistake, you trusted us,' said 3Com founder Bob Metcalfe, quoting an unnamed Microsoft executive." (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020620_0007...)

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