Sinister Midget wrote:
> High Plains Thumper claimed:
>> DFS wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> FR: Gendarmerie saves millions with open desktop and web
>>>> applications
>>>>
>>>> http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications
>>>
>>> This article contains at least two big lies by the French
>>> Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard:
>>
>> Rather bold statements accusing a government official for
>> embracing FOSS without proof.
>>
>>> 1) "Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software
>>> licences."
>>
>> http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-257511.html
>
> [SNIP]
>
>>> 2) "Previously, one of us would be travelling all year
>>> just to install a new version of some anti virus
>>> application on the desktops in the Gendarmerie's outposts
>>> on the islands in French Polynesia. A similar operation
>>> now is finished within two weeks and does not require
>>> travelling."
>>>
>>> You don't have to travel anywhere to remotely install a
>>> new AV package on Windows.
>
>> http://www.kaspersky.com/sp/faq?chapter=168840246&qid=169066620
>
>> http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.asp?articleid=Q107070
>
> It must be a shame. Doofie doesn't know the first thing about
> linux. It now appears he knows little to nothing about
> Windross, too. Or else he lies about Windwoes the same as he
> lies about everything else.
It is the eve of Windows 7. They are simply following a pattern
as designated by their masters. It is rather sad that they must
resort to lies, hateful language, poster attacks, libelous
insulting language that if exercised in the open would result in
physical violence, lawsuit.
They accuse the Linux advocates of driving away the readership,
but it is readily obvious who has done that.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-23-microsoft-letters.htm
[quote]
08/23/2001 - Updated 11:30 AM ET
Report: Microsoft funded 'grass roots' campaign
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft has been helping to fund a
letter-writing campaign to pressure state attorneys general to go
easy in their antitrust lawsuits against the software giant, the
Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
Two letters sent earlier this year to Utah Attorney General Mark
Shurtleff contained the names of dead people, the newspaper said.
The letter-writing campaign targeted some of the 18 attorneys
general whose states have joined the U.S. Justice Department in a
sweeping antitrust lawsuit. No two letters are identical but some
contain similar wording and appeared to be written spontaneously
by ordinary people, the newspaper said.
"It's sleazy," said Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch, whose
office received about 300 pro-Microsoft letters. "This is not a
company that appears to be bothered by ethical boundaries."
[/quote]
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