Fight The FUD: Lies, Damned Lies, And Linux
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| Obviously, any marketing tool based upon lies, slander, and rumor-mongering
| has some serious ethical issues. Just as obviously, that fact doesn't bother
| the companies that use it or the people they employ to perfect it. And while
| companies that play the FUD game sometimes come out winners, the same can't
| be said of customers who fall victim to the tactic.
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| When it comes to Linux, Microsoft is the undisputed king of the FUD dungheap:
| The company's now-infamous "Get The Facts" campaign may be the single biggest
| disinformation campaign ever concocted by an IT company, although SCO's
| failed effort to sue Linux out of existence certainly rivals it.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/fight_the_fud_l.html
Otellini faced EU in closed session
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| It is also defending itself to the European Commission anti trust court
| against allegations that it sold into the public sector at below cost and
| that it paid manufacturers to cancel AMD chip-based product launches. Intel
| denies doing anything wrong.
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| AMD is making its presentations today, also behind closed doors.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/12/otellini-faced-eu-closed
Related:
Intel overwhelmed by EU complaints
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| So many charges, so little time.
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| Intel Chairman Craig Barrett appears overwhelmed by a European Union
| investigation into the company's actions. Earlier this month, European
| Competition Commission officials busted open Intel offices in Munich, hunting
| for documents related to alleged price fixing with retailers. That raid added
| to an existing EC investigation into Intel's business practices.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/intel_barrett_eu_gripe/
Laptop-Project Founder Faults Intel
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| Oscar Becerra Tresierra, general director for educational technology at
| Peru's Ministry of Education, says that after the country recently agreed to
| buy 272,500 OLPC laptops for primary-school students, an Intel sales
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| representative tried "to scare us" by claiming the machines and their power
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| adapters didn't work. "I don't feel very happy about it," he said. "We
| wouldn't like the project to fail because somebody is spreading gossip about
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| the machines that doesn't turn out to be true."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119948070480568405.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
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| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
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| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
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| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
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| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
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| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Microsoft dropped Vista hardware spec to raise Intel profits
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/
Microsoft 'Caves' To Intel
http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/28/microsoft-vista-intel-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0228vista.html?partner=yahootix
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