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Re: pretend technology blog posts free advert for msOffice ..

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 24 September 2007 18:38 : \____
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ [H]omer on Friday 14 September 2007 19:56 : \____
>>> 
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:
>>>>> Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60 -- but only for students
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://snipurl.com/1qpx1
>>>>>
>>>
> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/09/13/microsoft_office_ultimate_for_60_but_only_for_students.html
>>>> 
>>>> Just like the MSBBC provided a free one hour advert for Microsoft Vista,
>>>> under the pretext of a "documentary". Yeah, right!
>>> 
>>> That Guardian blog has been publishing a lot of infortisements recently.
>>> Even one which was sort of anti-Linux just a few hours ago. They dance to
>>> the music of the Microsoft Money Machine.
>>> 
>> 
>> And the guardian is one of the better publications.  The FT  is probably
>> best, though...
> 
> I haven't come across a provocatively stupid article there (yet), so it's
> surely quite decent. It doesn't mention Linux very frequently though. It's
> probably out of its scope, being the _Financial_ Times.
> 

Ah, not at all... it's about economics, not accountancy.  It's had
several articles covering linux, some going way back.  In the main,
they've been both good and reasonably well balanced.

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