Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

Google Cloud dangled hundreds of million of euros worth of financial incentives to ally itself with an association of European cloud providers that had lodged a complaint against Microsoft, according to confidential documents seen by The Register. Amit Zavery, the former Vice President of Google Cloud Platform, presented to a …

[IGotOut]

Pathetic...

"incentive was €100 million of software credits of Google Distributed Cloud "

Their are all just scum.

"Here, stop using MS and their crack, come with me....here, have some free Fentanyl. Tell you what, have a free regular supply, just for a while mind."

[Anonymous Coward]

re: Google Cloud has long supported the principles of fair software licensing.

Prove it...

Quite simple really.

Oh, and by the way, stop slurping all our data. If you do that, you might be a convert. Otherwise, you are as evil as ever and certainly equal to MS, ORacle and the rest.

[Ryan D]

Google

$100 million = first hit free

Sure, what could go wrong.

[clyde666]

trained bullshitter?

What the heck is a "senior Google communications professional"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: trained bullshitter?

Probably as per your title..

[Peter2]

It's just as well Microsoft has impeccably clean hands, and didn't do the same thing to Linux when Microsoft was severely worried by *nix competing with Windows by funding the SCO lawsuit back when.

Oh, wait...

[GioCiampa]

Comprehension failure...

I read that as "Google (were) offered", and couldn't for the life of me imagine why...

Is it the weekend yet?

[Rich 2]

Get what they deserve

Well if this isn’t getting into bed with the devil then I’m buggered if I know what is.

Anyone who has anything to do with Googlies in this way fully deserve to get fleeced when the honeymoon is over

[Trigun]

I cannot make up my mind which company is worse: Google or Microsoft.

[IGotOut]

Yes.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well...

I'm no Google fan, but they were right in that CISPE absolutely should have carried on the lawsuit against Microsoft, because a) they would have won, and b) then consumers across the board might have actually had some proper remedy against Microsoft, and c) Microsoft would have been legally forced to stop being such complete c*nts.

Instead, folding just gives Microsoft the win, and CISPE members get just enough of a pat on the head from Microsoft that they're gaslit into believing that everything's now rosy. And consumers continue to be screwed by Microsoft's predatory, discriminative, and punitive licensing restrictions, and unfair incentives that significantly benefit Azure.

Any competent competition authority would split Microsoft up and force Azure to stand on its own two feet. Which it wouldn't, because it's comparitively shit. Same goes for Oracle Cloud.

[DoctorNine]

Christmas is coming soon...

Writing letters to Santa are we? How festive!