Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> It looks like Roy Schestowitz's motives are starting to unravel and the
> FOSS community is discovering the same tactics that Roy Schestowitz has
> been using in COLA for a couple of years now.
>
> The same tactics that Tim Smith has been posting about for some time now:
>
> 1. Referring back to his own site for proof.
> 2. Paranoid ranting with no form of proof.
> 3. Misleading statements
> 4. Repetition of the same rhetoric over and over again thus decreasing the
> amount of any credibility the statement might actually have had.
>
> Of course Roy Schestowitz claims this is an organized astroturfing
> campaign against him and his hate sites. He makes this same claim on all
> of the sites he pollutes with his garbage. For some reason the obvious
> doesn't seem to occur to Roy Schestowitz and that is that the community,
> the REAL Linux advocate community, you know the people out in trenches
> actually contributing something to the movement, don't appreciate is libel
> and off base statements. They would rather he just go away.
>
> The usual paranoid ranting of a loony toon.
>
>
http://fuckertwashington.blogspot.com/2008/06/boycott-novell-defenders-of-freedom-or.html
>
>
http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Boycott_Novell_Defenders_of_Freedom_or_Offenders_of_Freedom
>
> Here are some choice comments:
>
> "Nevertheless, Boycott Novell spreads FUD like a plague. It has misled
> hundreds of thousands of Free Software advocates, and it constantly works
> on staining the reputations of companies that have done nothing wrong.
> What's worse, they often have little proof of anything. Ever read a
> Boycott Novell article? Funny how they cite themselves 10 or more times in
> every article, rather than actually pointing to any relevent news. Give us
> facts grounded in reality, for Christ's sake!"
>
> "The articles themselves are playing on a single card: fear. Their
> so-called "news" is nothing more than overblown forum posts and
> speculations that were stretched out to be crap-filled articles. They play
> the mentality of everyone's least favorite forum trolls, stating "OH
> MICRO$HAFT IS EVIL, USE LINUX ITS BETTER! LOLOLOLOLOL!". Some people are
> just fine with using Windows/Mac/BSD/etc. An OS does NOT make a person,
> actions and words do."
>
> "And, as stated before, they use themselves as sources of information. A
> real journalist would know to link to real information sites, or at least
> speculation sites. They could say "Well, it's completely possible that..."
> instead of "NO! THIS IS FACT! BELIEVE LIKE US! THINK LIKE US! CONFORM! BE
> AN INDIVIDUAL!", it's a worse case than the rampant Mac-fanboyism."
>
> "Way to go, Roy. Throwing out the baby with the bath water."
>
> "I get the feeling that you think Free Software is about hating Microsoft.
> It's not.
> Grow up."
>
> "Mr. Schestowitz, I would like to deduce that YOUR website is full of
> libel. Libel in the sense that, you never back anything up with real
> facts. You're just using crap tactics to "scare" Free Software developers
> into believing what you do."
>
> "That website has unfortunately been one person's (Roy's) podium as a
> long-standing source of FUD in the (or outside the) FOSS community, with
> gratuitously unsubstantiated remarks containing a general lack of
> research, wild speculations, and an irrational dislike of what's really
> one of the greatest and most established contributors to open source
> software (employing more developers to work on the Linux desktop than
> anyone else), Novell.
>
> The site also attempts to break up the FOSS community by constantly
> putting down one of the greatest Linux distributions and its community --
> openSUSE. Other targets have also been the GNOME project (and recently it
> seems: Ubuntu).
>
> See the FAQ at http://opensuse.org/FAQ:Novell-MS which addresses the major
> issues with the deal."
>
> And so forth......
>
> You COLA loons are way behind the times....
> The rest of the Net has figured Schestowitz out for what he really is....
>
> More to come............
>
What a total load of bull shit. Roy is killing YOU and microsoft by a death
of a thousand cuts. The Truth Will Set You Free... and microsoft and it's
professional shills can't stand it... Kinda' like vampires being exposed to
sunlight...
Haha.. Cry all you want, the mother ship is skining... and the biggest rat
of all has already left... Bill Gates... gone! And selling microsoft stock
like it had a disease....
What a crock and what a joke...
--
Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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