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."
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- --- 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.
Moshe Goldfarb AKA PhlatPhish follows the "believes in Santa
Claus, the Easter Bunny, and [Linux]" to a tee, in his criticisms
of Linux advocates.
Linonut hit the nail on the head with his reply in
http://tinyurl.com/5mrdt4
> More:
>
> . Microsoft's fierce competitive nature has alienated
> everybody in the industry to the point where voluntary
> supporters are virtually nonexistent. For quite some time
> Microsoft has resorted to buying public endorsements and there
> have been documented incidents of Microsoft employees posing
> as normal software users in public settings without revealing
> their true identities. And these are just the incidents that
> the public has found out about - who knows how many cases have
> never been exposed for the false endorsements that they
> actually are? So when you see that rare instance of Microsoft
> support you need to seriously question whether it is genuine.
This follows very closely to what is occurring in this newsgroup,
especially the statement of employees posing as normal software
users.
> . Microsoft's recent "astroturf" campaign fortunately blew
> up in its face. The astroturf campaign was Microsoft's attempt
> to create a grassroots movement in its legal battle against
> the DOJ by paying people to show public support. It was
> referred to as astroturf rather than grassroots because the
> support was completely fake.
>
> Side note from the funny guy at RoughlyDrafted:
>
> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/12/
> from-vista-to-zune-why-microsoft-cant-sell-to-consumers/
or http://tinyurl.com/5sr69t
> . After establishing its brand name among consumers as a
> synonym for failure and the butt of many jokes, Microsoft
> retreated to more familiar territory in attempting to
> establish the product through business deals rather than
> effectively selling it to individuals.
>
> . Just as with its previous PlaysForSure failure, that meant
> lining up egregious DRM deals that promised music labels the
> opportunity to round up consumers and lock them up in a
> policed corral to be milked of their money.
They discontinued their music store and left users hanging,
opened up a Zune support store. We personally experienced this
with my daughter's purchase of tunes from their old, now defunct
store. This illustrates they are only in it for the money, not
user support.
> . Microsoft's main differentiation over iTunes and the iPod
> has been more restrictions on content use and a greater
> willingness to follow the RIAA rather than to challenge it as
> Apple has.
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HPT
Quando omni flunkus moritati
(If all else fails, play dead)
- "Red" Green
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