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Re: $100 Linux Laptop Gets New and Improved Build

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:50:03 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:

> begin  oe_protect.scr 
> Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:57:33 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
> 
>>> Some get "compensated" for their time. People other than myself have spotted
>>> marketeers who spend their time in Netscape and Digg as well. When people
>>> like Will Wheaton (now a colleague of mine) talk about stalkers and SEO
>>> marketeers that set up networks and relationships for profit, then that
>>> ought to have some credence, not just concrete proof. The Web becomes the
>>> new marketing ground and there are few (if any) limits. It's one of these
>>> "he did it, I just retaliated" routine of 5 year olds. Microsoft tells
>>> Jelliffe (?) that fanboys corrupt Open XML in blogs (or Wikis), so it takes
>>> that as a valid excuse to play hardball.
>> 
>> Given teh behaviour of some people on Wikipedia, I wouldn't totally
>> discount this. Some people, whatever they are advocating, are just stupid
>> and malicious.
>> 
>> Of course, there are always going to be some dirty tricks going on here
>> and there, but I doubt there is a huge campaign by MS to subvert COLA.
> 
> This has always bothered me about your logic, Kier.  You seem willing to
> accept that Microsoft would put money and effort into astroturfing
> pretty much every forum going, *except* cola.  I still cannot

Eh? I think you're missing something, there, since I've said no such
thing, ever. If you're referring to the above, I'm talking about the
likelihood of 'advocates' on both sides skewing articles to their agenda.
It does sometimes happen. And it's just as reprehensible for articles and
facts in those articles to be skewed or misrepresented by Linux advocates
as by MS. 

> understand, and have never seen a remotely convincing argument, as to
> why cola should be different.

MS is unlikely to be doing this anywhere on the scale you seem to think.
And COLA is nothing but a pumple on the backside of Usenet, which I doubt
is taken that seriously by anyone, least of all a company with as much
money and influence as MS. You really think we're that important here?

-- 
Kier

 


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