____/ Mike on Thursday 08 November 2007 00:57 : \____
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:18:34 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> It's amazing to me how people argue constantly about the technical
> details of msft vs. linux as if the extremely lopsided state of affairs
> in the software industry has anything at all to do with that. And yet an
> article like this that deals with the real root of the problem goes by
> virtually unnoticed. I've seen no response from the ms-shills to the
> assertion that msft's success is due primarily to illegally maintaining
> its monopoly and that the only reason msft gets away with it is that the
> gov't has been taken over by corporate interest in the form of lobbying
> and campaign contributions which have become so commonplace that it is
> now just legalized bribery. I believe the reason the ms-shills have
> nothing to say on this issue is that they know if illegal monopoly
> maintenance were to be eradicated by the gov't then msft would not
> survive very long in a competitive market. So they don't argue about it
> because they don't want any attention to be focused on it, they just want
> it to be kept as quiet as possible because the more light that gets shed
> on this issue the more bleak the outlook for msft. IMO, one of the best
> ways for a Linux Advocacy group to make an impact is to identify those
> political candidates which are taking a stand against excessive corporate
> influence and help bring them to the forefront of public awareness so
> they get elected and also to identify those politicians that are
> sycophants to corporate interest so they can be properly exposed and
> subsequently booted out of office.
You are right in pointing out that the shills never reply (give visibility) to
my posts which discuss Microsoft playing politics. They are, however,
attacking arguments about inferiority of OOXML and various ODF wins. If OOXML
fraud (plenty of that) is mentioned, the trolls escape that as well. Watch the
selective snipping too because it often gives a clue.
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