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Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>> From the blog:
>>><quote>
>>> If you don't think that Microsoft would resort to such tactics, you need
>>> to
>>> brush up a bit on your history. At a conference on Microsoft's
>>> anticompetitive behaviors, a reporter from a newspaper in Wisconsin
>>> described how Bill Gates had called the editorial board of the newspaper
>>> to
>>> tell them to "deal with" a reporter whose articles he didn't like.
>>></quote>
>>>
>>> I wish the blogger would give a citation for this. I tried a couple of
>>> google queries like "Wisconsin Bill Gates", but came up with nothing. If
>>> the
>>> blogger gave the name of the newspaper, it might be easier to track this
>>> down.
>>>
>>
>> Well, it's well known that the Mafia do video recordings of all their
>> "offers people can't refuse" so that the rest of us can prove it in
>> usenet discussions.
>>
>> Of /course/ you won't find such articles - this is the whole point which
>> is being made - the nature of the corruption is such that this isn't
>> going to come to light - certainly not for a long time, and probably not
>> ever.
>>
>> Naturally, over time, those involved will speak out, but as long as MS
>> has astroturfers, enforcers, and so on asking these kinds of questions,
>> then we can assume that they're trying to keep it covered up.
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> Or that it never happened. <snip>
Nope. That it's being covered up. We /know/ that the astroturfing
incidents happened - they're well documented. We /know/ about the
letters from deceased people in favour of Microsoft. We /know/ about
Microsoft forcing japanese companies to remove beos from boot options.
We /know/ about DRDOS and the code written into Win3.1 to detect it and
utter dire warnings. We even know about Bill Gates falsified
testimonies. We /know/ about Microsoft's efforts to daemonise Judge
Jackson. We are watching Microsoft's efforts to daemonise Neelie Kroes.
We know about Laura Didio, about magazine advertising, about funding for
political parties.
There is a pattern of behaviour here.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
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