__/ [ John Bailo ] on Sunday 18 February 2007 17:07 \__
> John Bailo wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> | The controversy boiled over on Saturday at a meeting where Craig
>>> | Barrett, chairman of Intel, squared off with Nicholas Negroponte,
>>> | the former director of the MIT Media Laboratory and head of the
>>
>> Go to Google
>>
>> Type in "OLPC"
>>
>> The first site that comes up is oltpnews.com which has one article, about
>> Kadafi of Libya buying laptops and how they effectively cost $280. The
>> article is from October, 2006.
>>
>> M....
>>
>> After that, the real OLPC shows up, http://www.laptop.org
>
> Oh, and that first hit in Goolge is a "Sponsored Link"
>
> Someone is paying google money to discredit the OLPC.
Microsoft and Intel see a lot in stake. Many articles which I mentioned here
contain bits that clearly show how Intel and Microsoft (sometimes using
their analysts as proxies) provide that lobbying opposition. How surprising
is the fact that Gates' folks currently work on fitting XP onto the OLPC?
There's no turning back, so suddenly Gates' mockery of OLPC counts no more.
To those who ask why Linux advocates mention Windows, tell them about
Microsoft placing its anti-Linux crusade in Google SERPs for 'linux',
'olpc', etc.
Oh, and while on the subject of OLPC FUD, I don't think that Microsoft was
too happy about Groklaw/Grokdoc's sheer effort to intercept Open XML.
Together with Wier, Sotur, Andy U and others they were also successful. They
derailed the process of giving ISO approval to the 'monopoly enabler'. So
now, I suspect, SCO and Microsoft, along with their estranged shill (O'Gara)
are running after Groklaw. They have already destroyed the reputation of
Slashdot. Now they wish to characterise Groklaw as a shill Web site
(discrediting the intelligence of the MC is too hard for them). "She doesn't
really exist", "she's funded by IBM", "she lives in a bad apartment"...
Their argument are _NOT_ even consistent! They are desparate to destroy
everything that provides criticism of Microsoft's corruption.
Examples:
INQhack survives Vistability test in Volesville
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| The Vole (Microsoft) supposedly invited The INQ over for tea because
| we are notorious "Microsoft doubters" - and we were accompanied by
| other supposed Vole doubters such as the folk from lifehacker and
| a very nice man from Slashdot, as well as some Microsoft MvPs.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36312
Microsoft desperately wants my love -- and yours
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| I spent December seventh, eighth, and ninth in Seattle as Microsoft's
| guest. Microsoft flew me there from Florida at its expense, put me up
| in a nice hotel, provided decent food, and comped me and four other
| invitees to this "special conference" with presentations about the
| marvels of Vista and other recent or upcoming Microsoft products. They
| didn't quite play the old Beatles song "Love Me Do" in the background,
| but it was the event's unstated theme.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/085222
Whatever Happened to Online Etiquette?
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| "Dear David, first off i would like to tell you that you are full of ****
| and did not research the zune enough to know your facts..." The deeper
| we sail into the new online world of communications, the sadder I get
| about its future.
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/14pogue-email-2/
"Microsoft seems to have hijacked Linux Asia"
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| Was the general feel amongst the attendees at Linux Asia 2007;
| MS however, just wanted to say ''let us walk hand-in-hand''
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http://www.ciol.com/content/developer/Linux/2007/107020104.asp
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