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Microsoft Goons Break Up SQL Server Meeting
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| Analysis: When it deployed guards to interrupt a SQL Server presentation,
| Redmond stepped over the line with its overzealous security.
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| [...]
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| Last night I was giving a presentation to our local SQL Server user group at
| Microsoft in Irving, Texas. A few minutes into my presentation, a security
| guard bursts in, comes up right beside me, and shouts to the entire
| room, "Does anybody here work for Microsoft?"
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| [...]
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| It pissed me off to be shouted over so abruptly and that Microsoft doesn't
| train its security crew on how to address businesspeople in the building.
| It's kinda like when the Rolling Stones had the Hells Angels as their
| bodyguards. Simple, well-meaning fans were beat up, noses broken, and so on
| just because they wanted a brief interaction with the band. You can't do that
| kinda crap.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/168645/microsoft_goons_break_up_sql_server_meeting.html
Microsoft: where mafia meets commerce.
Recent:
Physically attacked for using FOSS
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| It already happened to me a few days ago when I was out wearing my new KPLUG
| T-shirt. In the parking lot at CV center, I was forced to physically defend
| my person and the honor of KPLUG from some moron who claimed that FOSS was
| illegal and had cost him his job, and that he couldn't find work because he
| couldn't do Linux. He likened the money I make teaching and consulting with
| Linux to blood money and expressed a desire to make me pay. I perhaps made a
| mistake in saying I taught a class in Linux and would be glad to teach him
| about it, because he grabbed my shirt in his fist and I responded
| aggressively. Um, luckily for me, our side won decisively.
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http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2009-March/106765.html
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