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Russia/Georgia: War of the Web
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| These sites would typically pick a dozen articles from the foreign media -
| mostly American and British, but also that of the Baltic states and Eastern
| Europe - and translate them into Russian. Needless to say, they usually do
| their best to pick the most heinous articles, most of them full of bad
| reporting and stereotypes about Russia. This may seem relatively innocent but
| Inosmi has quickly gained a large following, which particularly delights in
| commenting on articles, mostly to report on inaccuracies in the articles and
| ignorance of their authors.
|
| Sites like Inosmi do their best perpetuate the myth of the "great
| brainwashing" -- that the Western media is either utterly biased against
| Russia or simply incompetent - and that the Western public and policy-makers
| are being constantly kept in the dark as to the true nature of things in
| Russia (this in itself is quite comical, as Russians themselves squandered
| most of their independent media in the early Putin years; arguably, they are
| in much greater darkness).
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/russia/article/russia-georgia-war-of-the-web
British libel laws violate human rights, says UN
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| The British libel laws have come under attack from the United Nations
| committee on human rights for discouraging coverage of matters of major
| public interest. The use of the Official Secrets Act to deter government
| employees from raising important issues has also been criticised.
|
| The intervention by the UN comes in the wake of international disquiet over
| the use of British courts for "libel tourism", whereby wealthy plaintiffs can
| sue in the high court in London over articles that would not warrant an
| action in their own country.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/14/law.unitednations
They could take a look at the many smear campaigns Microsoft has been running
over the years.
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned
that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very
prickly to work with.”
–Microsoft, internal document
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf
Recent:
A Memo to Patrick Durusau
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| I really must commend Patrick Durusau's innate capability of writing the most
| inflammatory and outrageous publications, publications that are so divorced
| from reality that one cannot help but think that the dude must be hoarding
| some seriously good weed to be able to live so completely within his own
| defined existence. His latest publication, "Not With a Bang, but With a
| Whimper", has been receiving flak from the collective open standards
| community for exactly that reason and rightly so.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has been running an anti-ODF campaign in favour of OOXML for a long
| long time now. In Malaysia, their campaign started with opposition to
| Malaysia's proposed adoption of ODF ISO26300:2006 as a voluntary standard by
| invoking Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt on the ODF standard. The campaign
| continued on by personally attacking members of the technical committee who
| were in favour of ODF, by casting undue aspersions on their characters, in
| particular, insinuating that we were subversive agents of IBM intent on the
| destruction of Microsoft (apparently, anybody who supports truly open
| standards is a biased IBM agent).
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/06/the-weed-whispe.html
Related:
A Microsoft Slur in the OOXML Saga -- Did I Tell You or Did I Tell You? -
Updated
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| Remember I told you I've noticed that people who don't support Microsoft's
| agenda end up the victim of smear campaigns?
|
| The New Zealand Open Source Society is reporting that an employee at
| Microsoft New Zealand recently sent an email to one of the technical bodies
| advising an NB involved in the OOXML ISO process, smearing a man's
| reputation, Matthew Holloway, apparently to undermine his technical input
| which was critical of OOXML.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080318151252279
Tim Bray: Life Is Complicated
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| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick’s position and
| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
| and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
How to Royally Annoy National Bodies
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| Guide to future monopolists on how to alienate yourself from National Bodies:
|
| 1. Waste NBs time in reviewing monstrous draft specifications
| 2. Claim that these specs can do everything for anyone by standardising
| marketing material
| 3. If you don't get your way at a certain level, lobby the superior above.
| Dont stop! Go all the way to the head of the nation if you think you can!
| 4. Leak press stories to journalists to pressure Ministries to make a
| decision. Quick!
| 5. Try to shut down TCs if actual technical work is done revealing issues
| with your plan
| 6. Question Question Question everything (process, fairness, the system,
| members) when things dont go your way
| 7. Otherwise create another TC with friendly experts
| 8. If the NB allows new members just by paying membership fees, encourage
| your business partners to join with marketing funds. Stack-stack-stack it
| high!
| 9. Stalk decision makers, even if it means traveling around the globe with
| them
| 10. Refuse changes in the spec especially if it breaks your product which
| you released prior
| 11. Have private interviews with TC members in the guise of funding for
| their new projects/research grants/interoperability initiatives and
| conveniently talk about their position on your spec.
| 12. Get your Business Partners to write in form letters. Some don't even
| bother to change the templates
| 13. Attend TC meetings uninvited by fabricating business cards
| 14. Send Lawyers in to Technical Committee meetings who prefer not to
| engage in "high-school" debates
| 15. Make rude and inaccurate statements against TC members in public
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/how-to-royally.html
Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature
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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
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| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
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