Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 28 February 2007 16:37 \__
>
>> Undocumented APIs are an abuse of monopoly power whose advantage for
>> Microsoft would be ended if Microsoft were broken into an OS division
>> and an apps division. I imagine they also make life difficult for
>> WINE developers.
>>
>> I don't know how anyone imagines that an abusive monopoly is good for
>> the consumer.
>
> Nobody thinks so, but few people care. Even fewer people have the power to do
> anything about it. The government that gives safe haven to Microsoft could
> not care less.
>
*But* Microsoft pay a lot of people to seed the net, newspapers,
phone-ins, magazines and any other influential publications they can
find in order to give the impression that Microsoft have huge public
support. Politicians are, at heart, quite simple souls - if they think
that voters care about something, then they'll go that way. What real
"grass-roots" campaigns are up against is huge marketing campaigns by
eg., Microsoft designed to give a "warm feeling" to the masses, thus
blunting the actions of those who actually recognise what they are
really doing.
I think that the trick which grass-roots organisations, movements,
gatherings and loose coalitions of allies and groups need to perfect is
some method for using the same information delivery organs as the the
paying companies do in order to disseminate their honest messages, and
put them up against the fluffy messages of the dishonest big corporations.
Of course, one method is to seed [News] articles into google, this has
been so effective that the Microsoft-paid people have fought very hard
to try to stop Roy from doing this. The funny thing being that if it
didn't work, they'd say nothing about it.
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