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____/ Linonut on Tuesday 26 August 2008 18:54 : \____
> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> In article <AmJsk.16226$XB4.11285@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> You guys are even more "off the rails" than Roy, in my opinion <grin>.
>>
>> It's hard to get more off the rails than this:
>>
>> There¹s a good document about Microsoft¹s call for ³Jihad². It¹s
>> referring to merciless marketing.
>>
>> I showed this to Marc Fleury and believe it or not, he didn¹t buy
>> it. He made a deal with Microsoft in the past. He has an XBox.
>>
>> OMG! Marc Fleury has an XBox! Microsoft got to him!
>>
>> It's also pretty off the rails to claim that all of these organizations
>> are pro-MS shills:
>>
>> New York Times
>> Motley Fool
>> Time
>> CNN
>>
>> You want a really far off the rails example? Consider this article on
>> the battle between Adobe and Microsoft over interactive web technologies:
>>
>> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7746031>
>>
>> A fairly straightforward article. Roy sees it as an MS advertisement,
>> and so investigates the author, and finds this:
>>
>> <http://www.journalisted.com/daisuke-wakabayashi>
>>
>> and is making a big deal of the fact that it lists that author as having
>> written more about MS than anything else. He completely overlooks the
>> fact that the author only had two prior stories. One was about the
>> Yahoo/Google ad deal that was made during the Microsoft/Google takeover
>> attempt, and the other was about the Halo 3 launch.
>>
>> So, a tech journalists writes two articles that have something to do
>> with Microsoft, and that's enough in Roy's eyes to make him suspect?
>
> How do I know you're not completely misrepresenting Roy's positions
> here?
*LMAO*
Timmy is now stalking in IRC channels too. Who pays him to spend all that time
chasing tails?
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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