In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:51:28 +0100
<1544441.vFx2qVVIhK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 12 July 2006 08:56 \__
>
>> begin oe_protect.scr
>> ws <see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Just found the following:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfer
>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>> And I will never let go the following:
>>>>
>>>> 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"
>>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh yes! Old news here. You can ask E. "Munchkin" Funkenbusch all about
>>> what happened. After all, he was there.
>>>
>>
>> Don't you mean "still is here"?
>
> Yeah, 'xactly! Isn't there a law against Munchkins? If not,
> there *should* be.
I dunno; I wouldn't want to cross the Lollipop Guild, myself.
Especially after a tornado dumps my house on a witch.
:-)
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.
|
|
