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Re: [News] Electronic Arts (EA) DRM Another Epic Fail

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 24 September 2008 16:27 : \____

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> It all started with an email from George Ou, who decided, without ever
>> hearing my talk on content-protection issues or seeing the slides for the
>> talk, that what I'd said in the slides was wrong. I offered to send them to
>> him, but by then he'd gone ahead and posted his conclusions anyway, still
>> without ever actually having seen the slides that he's commenting on. Later
>> he changed his story to claim quite emphatically that he wasn't attacking
>> the slides at all, which seems a bit contradictory since the material wasn't
>> present anywhere but the slides.
>>
>> Dealing with him was quite weird in a number of other ways as well. For
>> example whenever anyone anywhere posted something that happened to agree
>> with his position, I'd immediately get a gleeful email from him crowing
>> about it. I never even saw the articles, because George would beat me to
>> them every time. It's as if I had my own personal "news about George Ou"
>> news-clipping service provided for me by ZDNet."
> 
> Is George Ou the Hadron of ZDnet?

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/08/24/zdnets-george-ou-exposed-as-ignorant-microsoft-shill-zoon/

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