On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:06:50 -0600, High Plains Thumper wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> I'm personally against linking his articles because he writes a lot
>> about Microsoft's #1 threat while it's a fact that Microsoft is one of
>> his clients (i.e. Microsoft pays him). His writings offer no disclosure
>> about it. In fact, comparing Linux users to 9/11 'zealots' is where the
>> man went too far.
>>
>> Microsoft is nervous. The mouthpieces are busy, which is indicative.
>> Analysts, so-called consultants slash journos, USENET Munchkins...
>>
>> Microsoft knows it's losing this Slog^TM.
>
> I think that is very evident. The truth is getting out and overall,
> people only support Microsoft because of the lack of competition and their
> foot in the door through vendor lock-in.
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> "Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with
>>> mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter
>>> Bunny, and OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts,
>>> newsgroups, whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's
>>> technology part of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to
>>> place selection pressure on those companies and individuals that show a
>>> genetic weakness for competitors' technologies, to make the industry
>>> increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time."
>> `----
>>
>> - --- Microsoft, internal document
>> http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
>
> It is interesting to note how the troll activity in this newsgroup line up
> precisely your quote from the Comes-3096.pdf philosophy document.
>
> DFS' distorted posts on Linux failures follows this party line. Tim
> Smith's selective snippages to remove context and distortion/tangent
> drivel posts follow it closely, too.
>
> Hadron's idiotic posts on Ubuntu diffuse his apparent payroll role.
Quack also harassed the SuSE group with inane drivel before going to the
Ubuntu group. And before that, the Emacs group. Seems he's being largely
ignored in a Debian group now.
--
This message was sent from a
computer which is guaranteed
100% free of the M$ Windoze virus.
-- 64bit Mandriva 2008.1 --
|
|
