The rise of the FOSS spinmeister
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| In August 2003, a little more than three months after the SCO Group had filed
| a lawsuit against IBM, seeking damages for alleged breach of contract, I had
| an email exchange with Blake Stowell, who was then the public relations
| manager of the former company.
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| But the spinmeister cannot do this - he or she has no skills in this
| direction and there are few companies which are looking to hire
| incompetent "advocates" or "consultants." One thus finds that the
| spinmeister, in many instances, sets up his or her own consultancy and
| actively uses his or her position in the FOSS sphere to generate business.
| Self-promotion comes easy to this breed, dishonesty and a lack of integrity
| is close behind.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16264/1090/
Quote for the day:
"I was a little surprised they [Microsoft] didn’t deal with the evidence
presented yesterday."
--David Boies, lead trial attorney DOJ
Related:
What's all the FUD about?
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| My favorite, classic FUD comes from Steve Ballmer. "There's no company called
| Linux, there's barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically
| from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that
| people love so very, very much about it." Here, Ballmer went to the route of
| the American psyche. How many Americans, to this day, still cringe a little
| in fear at the voicing of "communism"? If there's anyway to turn Americans
| off from buying a Linux PC, it's to emblazon the image of a big, red, Soviet
| Flag on the face of Linux, to conjure up an image of FIdel Castro reciting
| his communist propaganda from a speech he'd written on his openoffice,org
| word processor, to strike fear into our hearts at the thought of a Wisconsin
| Senator named Joe McCarthy barging into our houses in the middle of the night
| to send us away to prison for life because we owned an Ubuntu PC. I can't say
| if this FUD actually worked; it was so preposterous, and so few people give
| any credence to what Ballmer says anymore, that people might have just
| laughed at it. But it does show the depths to which proprietary software
| makers will go to keep the Linux and open source software threat out of their
| wallets.
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http://linuxhow2.com/Feature_Articles/What_s_all_the_FUD_about.html
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