____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 05 December 2007 14:27 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Microsoft slammed for badmouthing benchmark
> [...]
>> Vista licensing also limits benchmarking
>
> Attempting to restrict the publication of benchmarks is not only a form
> of draconian censorship, but also highly suspicious behaviour, and just
> looks like an admission of failure. For Microsoft to then criticise the
> results released by those who decide to "publish and be damned" anyway,
> only serves to compound that failure and justify our suspicions.
>
> Maybe if Microsoft were to be rather less concerned with "fscking with"
> interoperability, keeping dirty little secrets, pushing half-baked slop
> out the door, squeezing every last drop of blood from customers, trying
> to bind and gag those customers to be more easily raped by the MP/RIAA,
> and treating those customers like criminals; and spent rather more time
> learning how to actually produce software; then maybe there wouldn't be
> this desperate need to prohibit benchmarks in the first place.
>
> Sorry, I forgot for a moment that we were discussing Microsoft; they do
> not "produce" anything, but merely "fscking kill" everyone else for the
> money, so they really don't need to care if the "product" is worthwhile
> or even functional. However, they do need to silence the critics, which
> is easy when you have as much money and muscle as Microsoft. This is an
> unsurprising reaction from a company that operates like gangsters.
"What did happen that day in 1994 is an example of how Microsoft
approaches its everyday business: not by applying itself to the truths
and principles and operating parameters of its chosen industry, and
not by solving the arguably solvable problems put before it, but
instead by concocting a fantasy world where Microsoft is the world's
great benefactor, the great multitude is the recipient of its mercy
and grace, and all other entities in the computing industry are
either--to borrow a recently reborn phrase--"with us or against us."
This is a world where media entities such as Newsweek, and
professional observers such as myself, should stand in awe of that
company's "accomplishments," as if its role-playing conquests held
tangible value in any currency in which common people trade."
---Scott M. Fulton, III
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~~ Best of wishes
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