In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:25:59 +0000
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> Weather alert: new Microsoft FUD storm expected
<voice mode="marvin"> Oh no, not another one. </voice>
As if the blizzard of spam mail and the howling storm of
malware packets isn't enough already?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In recent weeks, Microsoft seems to have gone out of its way to put
> | Linux down, while boosting Linux. First, there was the bribetop
> | scandal; then, the Wikipedia 'correction' affair. Now, the company
> | is up to one of its oldest tricks: playing games with analyst reports.
> |
> | This time around, Sunbelt Software is working with the Yankee
> | Group, a research company with a poor reputation in Linux circles,
> | to produce its "yearly major survey comparing Windows to Linux."
> | Here we go again.
> |
> | What's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong with it.
> | Sunbelt is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In other words,
> | they're buddies with Microsoft.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2225368488.html
>
>
> See below:
>
> Related:
>
> ,----[ Quotes with annotation ]
> | "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
> | on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
> | on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
> | fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
> | don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
> | competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
> | that we sponsored it."
> `----
>
> http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
>
>
> Fighting Claims That Open Source Is Insecure?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Lately there has been a HUGE push by Certified Microsoft
> | Professionals and their companies to call clients and warn
> | them of the dangers of open source.
Dangers to what? Microsoft revenue? :-)
> | This week I received calls
> | from 4 different customers that they were warned that they are
> | dangerously insecure because they run Open Source Operating
> | systems or Software because 'anyone can read the code and hack
> | you with ease' they are being told.
Well, yeah. [1] Shut down system. [2] Remove disk from case.
[3] Insert into hacker's system. [4] Read.
Somehow, I don't see this as all that specific to FOSS,
though.
A variant that's a little simpler:
[1] Shut down system. [2] Insert LiveDisc into face.
[3] Reboot. [4] Read.
Oops, there goes EAL4! Probably EAL1, 2, and 3 as well.
How well does Vista support encrypted filesystems?
Linux can, no problem (at least, AFAIK; I've not tried to
set one up as there's been no real need here).
> | Other colleagues in the area
> | also have noticed this about 3 Microsoft Partners or so they claim
> | have been going out of their way to strike fear of OSS in
> | companies that respond with 'yes we use Open source or Linux'
> | when the sales call comes in.
> `----
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> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/0413212&from=rss
>
>
> A new Microsoft-commissioned anti-Linux study debuts
Uh huh.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft seemingly has backed off from trumpeting its "Get the
> | Facts" studies, as of late. But that doesn't mean the company has
> | ceased commissioning research outfits to perform its anti-Linux dirty
> | work.
> |
> | On September 25, Mercer Management Consulting released a new
> | Microsoft-backed study. The study is entitled "Driving Lower TCO and
> | Rapid ROI through UNIX Migrations." The synopsis: "Microsoft Windows
> | the preferred choice for UNIX migration when IT organizations migrate
> | servers as part of a focused effort to improve business processes,
> | deploy critical applications or restructure their IT architecture."
> `----
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/index.php?p=12
>
>
> IDC pronounces Linux unimportant to European economy (in
> Microsoft-commissioned study)
Oh brooooother.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A recent IDC white paper on the economic impact of Microsoft's super
> | soaraway new Vista operating system seems to be lacking one crucial
> | ingredient -- other operating systems.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34542
>
>
> On Yankee Group:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
> | in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
> | Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
> | open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
> | and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
> | it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
> | like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
> |
> | Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
> | IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
> | issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
> | not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
> | DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
> | qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
> | this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
> | characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
> `----
>
>
> For those who think that even IDC and Gartner are neutral, read this:
>
> NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
Good! For all that nonsense regarding Judith Miller,
there's hope for the formerly Gray Lady yet. ;-)
>
> Gartner, IDC, Rob E. and others are all in Microsoft's pocket. And as the
> E-mail above shows, they can take a study which shows Linux to be superior
> and every way, then flip the results over and mask the sponsorship.
And FUD up the issue, if we're not careful.
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