__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Saturday 08 July 2006 10:16 \__
> Richard Rasker wrote:
>
>>
>> But seriously: what did these clowns think (or drink) to make them
>> publicly say something as obviously stupid as this?
>>
>> Richard Rasker
>>
>
> These are the clearly 'True Believers' in the One Microsoft Way. As
> Microsoft does not support ODF, it must be bad. In other words, they are
> making money out of the way that Microsoft screws its customers. These
> people are like pilot fish around the mouth of shark.
>
> Isn't it amazing how many people fight for a short term gain and simply
> accept the resulting long term pain.
Other pilot fish include Taylor, Hilf, Didiot, and our resident trolls.
Whether the latter get any leftover prey is yet an unknown. But it happened
in the past. Microsoft is not hesitant when it comes to employing 'unbiased'
mouths (Hilf was with OSS and they also employed the Gentoo founder):
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html
,----[ Quote ]
| "Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using
| online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues
| of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it
| was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers
| and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who
| liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won
| the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics"
`----
Best wishes,
Roy
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