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Re: How Much Does M$ Spend to Discredit COLA?

  • Subject: Re: How Much Does M$ Spend to Discredit COLA?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:12:10 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ B Gruff ] on Monday 22 January 2007 22:24 \__

> On Monday 22 January 2007 20:52 Ian Semmel wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:24:20 -0800, John Bailo wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to guess the total budget Microsoft has been spending to
>>> discredit COLA.
>>> 
>>> It's got to be at least 3 salaries...and a lot of hourly if flatfish+++
>>> is billing them.
>> 
>> Do you really believe Microsoft gives a rat's arse what anyone in cola
>> thinks ?
> 
> Do *you* think that anybody on cola gives a bugger what *you* think?

On today's menu...

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/an_interesting_offer.html

,----[ Quote ]
| So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago
| from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent
| but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on
| Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of
| Microsoft partisanship! Apparently they are frustrated at the
| amount of spin from some ODF stakeholders on Wikipedia and blogs.
`----


And in the same vein:

        "Do you really believe Microsoft gives a rat's arse what anyone in some 
         Wiki thinks?"


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