Verily I say unto thee, that waterskidoo spake thusly:
> On 2007-07-29, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There was a big push against cola at the time. About the same
>> time, some Microsoft Zealots or Shills subscribed me to any number
>> of mailing lists and groups of all kinds, it was clearly
>> coordinated, and clearly an attempt to intimidate.
>>
>> I'm used to the Windows zealot crowd trying to intimidate us here.
>
> So it seems. I poked around Google a little and was amazed at what I
> found. From an outsider's POV, it appears that this group was being
> attacked by a well organized group of trolls. It looked like downtown
> Beirut in here about a year ago,
You should also pay attention to the Shill posts around the time of the
Vista launch; a slew of well coordinated pro-Vista/anti-Linux propaganda
that sounded like it might easily have come straight from the mouth of
Ballmer. IIRC many of these posts were from one-hit-wonders/nyms and
probably X-No-Archived too, so Google might not be much help in your
research. But just ask anyone else here for confirmation. IIRC I
described it as "a bombing run".
Unfortunately for the Vista marketing team, their little campaign didn't
help (as if anything could). Vista was, is, and shall remain a stinking
rotten Lemon.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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