____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 January 2008 07:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:25 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Going to OOXML great lengths
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| We landed directly at the Seattle-Tacoma airport to attend a press
>>>>| briefing by software giant Microsoft, in the nearby cities of Kirkland
>>>>| and Redmond.
>>>>|
>>>>| Why am I telling you this? Well, I'd like to think that Microsoft is
>>>>| going out of its way to reach out to technology journalists from the far
>>>>| corners of the world, to argue its case in what has become a very
>>>>| contentious issue in the IT industry.
>>>>|
>>>>| [...]
>>>>|
>>>>| The Philippines is one of the countries that voted "no", which partly
>>>>| explains why we were invited to attend the press briefing.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/pinoypost/0,3800005677,63001918,00.htm
>>>>
>>>
>>> "Reach out" meaning, err, shut up? I suspect a lot of Philipino
>>> journalists would be deeply disturbed if the Philipines vote were to
>>> change from the right and proper "no" to a "yes, we think an
>>> unimplementable standard should be approved by ISO so that Microsoft can
>>> con government purchasers into thinking they're getting something which
>>> is interoperable".
>>
>> I'm still finding more of that stuff at the moment. Microsoft has amassed a
>> small army of "zombie journalists" (one of them told me he found this phrase
>> offensive because I'm sort of at war against that astroturfing now).
>> Microsoft is showing its true colours. Media control!
>>
>
> We need to be at war with that kind of Astroturfing - it always has been
> wrong, and for professional journalists to do it is reprehensible. They
> should know better.
He is aware of this issue and this information was passed on to various other
forums.
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/29/journalists-digest-odf-fud/
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/01/30/quick-mention-brett-winterford-at-it-again-microsoft-mouthpiece/
>
> Incidentally, there was a piece in this week's Private Eye about the
> "death of British journalism", indicating that they only ever carry
> stories about breasts, sex, footballers, television programmes about
> sex, breasts, footballers, and "pop stars" etc.
>
> You only have to look at the Madeleine McCann incident to see how easy
> it is now to manipulate the press - the papers just print what they've
> been told to by the McCann's "publicist".
Well, here it's not about football and boobs. It's about people's businesses,
which mustn't be locked in to a single bad and expensive application that only
works properly on one convicted monopolist's platform.
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