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Open Source vs. Proprietary - Who Are The Real Zealots?
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| I was really sickened the other day to see an investigative blogger whom I
| respect and admire get attacked so unfairly. I am speaking of Roy
| Schestowitz, of BoycottNovell fame. Far beyond the original purpose described
| by the URL, Roy has focused with laser-beam intensity on all of the dirty
| dealings of proprietary technology. I have often been amazed to check a
| Boycott Novell article and discover hard evidence, before my very eyes, of
| things I'd only half-guessed and suspected before.
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| [...]
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| Now, at last, the point: Boycott Novell has intercepted real, actual, hard
| evidence of asstroturfing by a Microsoft employee. What pisses me off the
| most is that, without the Roy Schestowitzes of this world, if I try to say
| that Microsoft asstroturfs, I get called "paranoid."
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| Do keep in mind that Microsoft has declared "jihad" against Linux. There is
| the hard evidence. Microsoft hires "evangelists".
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| But check the rest of Armchair Theorist. If you didn't know, you'd think it
| was a personal blog just like mine, wouldn't you? But it's not! It's a
| soapbox for a corporation. A corporation that hires... "evangelists."
| Definition of "evangelism" courtesy of Wikipedia:
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| "Evangelism is the practice of attempting to convert people to a
| religion. The term is used most often in reference to Christianity and
| Islam, since those two religions mandate that their followers make
| efforts to recruit as many people as possible into their faith..."
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| How many of these "Microsoft evangelists" are there, anyway? To take
| Microsoft's own word for it, we can visit the MSDN page with the
| folksy-sounding title of "Meet Your Local Microsoft Evangelists." With a map
| of the USA. I just clicked on my home-state of Iowa, and counted nine
| profiles. For Iowa. Which isn't exactly saturated with computers to begin
| with. It's that important that the fly-over state of Iowa, home to more hogs
| and cornfields than computers, has nine "evangelists."
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=open_source_vs_proprietary_who_are_the_r&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Related:
Fake bloggers soon to be 'named and shamed'
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| From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they
| can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1361968.ece
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