Anatomy of the Irrational Microsoft User Response
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| Analysis of a typical response
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| The exchange always seems to go like this:
|
| FOSS advocate: Microsoft is doing [some business strategy], which is bad,
| because [some negative effect on the FOSS community, the user community
| or society].
|
| Microsoft fan: Have you tried [insert some random Microsoft product
| name]? It's excellent! But you don't see that because for you it's only
| Linux/FOSS. You obviously hate Microsoft (or Bill Gates, or Steve
| Balmer). (Sometimes thrown in: Microsoft worked hard for its market
| share, why should they not take advantage of it? You FOSS people are
| communists and don't like the free-market.)
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| Message-ID: <vckav4-65t.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>
| From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
| Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
| Subject: Typical Troll responses...
|
| COLA: Microsoft has a monopoly.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Vista lacks drivers.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft wasted 6 years and 10 billion dollars on a lemon.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: The Xbox scratches discs, crashes and catches fire.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft deliberately sells the Xbox at a loss, just to undercut
| its competition.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: The Zune is ugly and restrictive.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Ballmer makes unsubstantiated allegations against Linux.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: OneCare deletes Emails but doesn't catch viruses.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft coerces OEMs to exclude Linux.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft bribes ISO members and corrupts the standards process.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: The Gates Foundation is a money laundering operation for MS.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft wanted to "knife the baby" at Apple.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft wanted to "tilt lotus into the death spiral".
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Ballmer threatened to "fucking kill Google".
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft deploys "stealth updates".
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft forced OEMs to keep Netscape off the desktop.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft accused Google of "reading your Emails".
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft accused Google of monopolising advertising, after it
| tried and failed to do the same thing.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft uses shill journalists to spread anti-Linux FUD.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft spreads lies through advertising on Linux web sites.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft bought IIS Web share via GoDaddy to improve it's stats
| via parked domains.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft pays "annalists" to create misleading reports on market
| trends.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft employs market researchers like "Penn, Schoen & Berland
| Associates" to spread FUD about Linux.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft uses shell companies like SCO and IP Innovations LLC to
| damage Linux with litigation.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft has destroyed the BBC.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft has corrupted the British National Archives.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft divided the Linux community with a protection racket.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft lied about DirectX 10 not working with XP.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Windows is buggy, bloated and insecure.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft lies about the vulnerabilities in its products.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft Excel has serious computational flaws.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft Outlook and Exchange are buggy and break standards.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft has corrupted the Web with broken standards.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft employed "munchkins" to destroy IBM OS2/Warp.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft stockholders invade newsgroups to criticise rival
| products, so as to protect their investments.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
| COLA: Microsoft are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either.
| TROLL: Microsoft makes lots of money.
|
|
| Conclusion: It's "OK" to be criminal thugs that produce Slopware and
| break standards, then force said products onto unsuspecting victims
| using bribery and corruption ... as long as you make lots and lots of
| money is the process.
|
| So the award for the World's Most Successful Crime Syndicate goes to ...
| Microsoft. Sorry, there's no money awarded in this prize (and therefore
| it has no value) because there's no money left anywhere - Microsoft took
| it all. Congratulations.
|
| Meanwhile, the rest of us engage in something other than the mindless
| and obsessive pursuit of money, and actually create software (rather
| than just buy it from another company then claim it as "innovation").
| Yes, unbelievably there are actually some people in the world who still
| believe in integrity, and not just "getting it out the door as quick as
| possible, before the stockholders become restless". Microsoft is not a
| software company; it's a stock trader, a reseller, an IP harvester, it's
| basically nothing but a big warehouse filled with the legacy of others'
| work, bought wholesale by Microsoft, and sold off at auction.
|
| Yes, Microsoft make lots of money. Lots and lots and lots.
|
| And that is all they do make.
|
| So you can be sure that whatever technical argument you ever have
| against Windows, or for Linux, will always illicit a predictable
| response from the stockholders ... ahem, I mean Trolls, just don't
| expect it to be relevant ... to anyone but a stockbroker.
|
| Here endeth the lesson.
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