__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 14 February 2007 09:00 \__
> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> You know, I take it for granted that people lie for all kinds of
>> reasons, love, money, but especially for money. You expect it,
>> especially when someone is trying to sell you something. But at the
>> same time you also expect there to be limits to the lying, that beyond
>> a certain point it just gets too bald-faced for anyone to have the
>> gall to keep putting up the lie. Then you see something like this...
>>
>
> This says more about the ethos and ethics of Microsoft than any number
> of marketing campaigns, but for those of us who've spent a long time
> here, it should be no surprise at all, as it aligns so thoroughly with
> the behaviour we witness on a day to day basis. There are so many
> examples of this ethically-free behaviour, one major example being the
> astroturfing which goes on in this very newsgroup. I still have a
> deeper concern with how the whole Microsoft breakup was abandoned by the
> present US government - again, it seems surprising to me that a
> government can so easily interfere with a judiciary which is claimed to
> have some degree of independence - clearly, it hasn't got very much
> independence.
Only in Soviet a government runs the industry. (yes, it's the Russian
reversal joke)
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