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Re: [News] Novell Pulls Cheeky/Dirty Tricks in Red Hat's Summit

____/ Rick on Tuesday 24 June 2008 13:28 : \____

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:16:06 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> 
>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1392022.jt3IHT8234@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> Novell stickers it to Red Hat
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Having pointed out the cheeky banner that Novell hung outside rival
>>> Red Hat's
>>> | annual conference in Boston, I later found out from Red Hat's chief
>>> executive
>>> | Jim Whitehurst that Novell also put a "big sticker" on the floor
>>> outside too
>>> | but Red Hat managed to get it removed. |
>>> | Well surprise, surprise, I got an email today from Novell with a nice
>>> image
>>> | of the sticker in question and what a sticker - it must be twenty
>>> feet | across - I wouldn't like to have on the crew that had to lay
>>> that let alone
>>> | remove it.
>>> `----
>> 
>> You really are a clueless idiot Schestowitz. Get out of your unemployed
>> dorm room and see the real world for a change. Out there you'll find
>> that it's quite common for other vendors/companies to make their
>> presence known at a competitors conference.
>> 
>> What a clueless dolt you are.
> 
> So, its OK you to use "I only quoted the author" as a defense, but it
> isn't OK for anyone else?

The words "dirty tricks" and "cheeky tricks" both came from //headlines// of
the author in the OP (ZDNet UK).

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