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I don't think this was ever posted here, so I'll post it now.
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html
"This is a response to a series of articles by George Ou and Ed Bott of ZDNet
stretching over a period of more than a month. I'll try to stay away from the
assorted personal attacks in George and Ed's articles and just outline the
details.
"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."
[...]
"(the "bunch of freaking morons" includes Bruce Schneier and Charlie Demerjian
of the Inquirer, whom he refers to in a preceding email).
"And finally here's ZDNet's technical director signing off (again, censored so
this page doesn't get blacklisted):
"From: George Ou <george_ou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 7:03 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: RE: Gutmann Vista DRM paper uses shoddy Web Forums as source
You know, you are a f***ing moron. End of discussion.
"(Since this was posted I've had a number of emails pointing out that George
has acquired quite a reputation for this sort of behaviour, sometimes in
private mail and sometimes on public blogs. If you've got any choice examples
of his wit and wisdom, do send me a link or the text of the email, if there's
enough interest I'll post the most amusing ones here)."
Microsoft Smear(R). Learn it. savour it.
Related:
A Microsoft Slur in the OOXML Saga -- Did I Tell You or Did I Tell You? -
Updated
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| Remember I told you I've noticed that people who don't support Microsoft's
| agenda end up the victim of smear campaigns?
|
| The New Zealand Open Source Society is reporting that an employee at
| Microsoft New Zealand recently sent an email to one of the technical bodies
| advising an NB involved in the OOXML ISO process, smearing a man's
| reputation, Matthew Holloway, apparently to undermine his technical input
| which was critical of OOXML.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080318151252279
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| "It also was strange to see just how many resources are aligned
| against me when I write a story about Microsoft."
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/enough_about_me.html
Tim Bray: Life Is Complicated
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| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick’s position and
| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
| and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
Microsoft Critics Assigned PR "Spooks"
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| San Jose Mercury technology reporter Dan Gilmore recently discovered he's
| been assigned a special "owner" at one of Microsoft's public relations firms,
| Waggener-Edstrom. These spin-masters are attached to troublesome journalists
| like Gilmore who have the temerity to write uncomplimentary articles about
| the company or its products.
|
| The really irksome reporters, according to documents spirited from the
| Waggener-Edstrom offices, are also assigned "buddies" at Microsoft itself.
| John Dodge, the editor of PC Week, has a special buddy at Microsoft, and Mary
| Jo Foley at Smart Reseller, is the subject of a "Mary Jo six month plan.''
|
| These "owners" and "buddies" are just there to "help" the journalists, of
| course. How dare we think otherwise?
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http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml
Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature
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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
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| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
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