News Flash!! Microsoft has done some nasty things.
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| dinotrac Dec 28, 2008 9:20 AM EDT |
That will certainly come as a shock to people in the FOSS community.
Maybe we should alert the government. Maybe we could get some kind of antitrust thing going. |
| InTheLoop Dec 30, 2008 1:51 AM EDT |
To be honest, I am kind of tired of these articles. There are so many accusations flying around about Microsoft that I have no idea what to believe (or why I should really care.) I would rather forget about Microsoft and whatever they may or may not be doing and focus on what's cool (or not cool) about Linux. |
| Sander_Marechal Dec 30, 2008 3:42 AM EDT |
Quoting:To be honest, I am kind of tired of these articles. To be honest, I am kind of tired of these threads as well. |
| dinotrac Dec 30, 2008 8:42 AM EDT |
ITL and Sander - I'm reminded of something Eric Raymond said about ten years ago when he came to visit the LUG at Lucent -- It's not always bad to let the enemy reverse engineer your stuff. While you are moving forward, they are spending time and energy working out and incorporating what you were dong XX years ago. I see the obsession with Microsoft in a similar light. Why obsess over them? I think it's because so many Linux users are young and have more experience with desktops than anything else. The truth is that Microsoft doesn't own the world, and it doesn't even own the IT world. Obsessing over Microsoft makes you blind to Oracle, IBM, Adobe, Sun, Apple, etc, etc, etct. And for what? To take time, attention, and resources that could be devoted to really cool stuff. Pointless. |
| Scott_Ruecker Dec 30, 2008 10:41 AM EDT |
Very well put Dino, why obsess. Roy used to come across a nugget or two once in a while but as of recent it seems to be as Dino puts it, obsession. |
| KernelShepard Dec 30, 2008 12:32 PM EDT |
Scott: recently? I think you mean since the very beginning. Anyone who posts 5-10 articles on his "news site" per day every day for 2 or 3 years in a row, 100's of posts per week to a USENET group "advocating" Linux (read: badmouthing Microsoft) to Linux users (pretty amusing, that), and then going around to every news aggregation site and feeding links to his own articles is clearly an obsessed individual. |
| azerthoth Dec 30, 2008 12:56 PM EDT |
You know I just had a surge of empathy for Scott and the team. For the most part I skip anything coming out of BN, although I do catch one or two. The team here though, actually has to go look and see if the latest greatest coming from there is worth the effort it took to click the link. I'm sorry, you guys have just earned more kudo's. That and many more thanks for putting a filter in place. |
| vainrveenr Dec 30, 2008 2:02 PM EDT |
Quoting:Anyone who posts 5-10 articles on his "news site" per day every day for 2 or 3 years in a row, 100's of posts per week to a USENET group "advocating" Linux (read: badmouthing Microsoft) to Linux users (pretty amusing, that), and then going around to every news aggregation site and feeding links to his own articles is clearly an obsessed individual.Already agreed with this in another LXer thread comment related to Novell. To partially corroborate Schestowitz's obsessiveness with Microsoft in particular, feel free to review a list of Schestowitz's newswire posting history found at http://lxer.com/members/member/schestowitz/ Here are Schestowitz's current top-ten posted LXer-newswire topics: 1. Sun Responds — Gently — to Novell’s OpenOffice.org FUD 2. Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This 3. OpenDocument Gains Traction, So the Redmond Bully Returns 4. Reader’s Take on Microsoft Open Source 5. Linux Defenders: Obeying — Not Challenging — a Broken System 6. Microsoft Chooses New Lobbying Director with “Strong Ties to Democrats” 7. How Novell and Microsoft Cooperate Behind the Scenes 8. Leaked: Microsoft Pays Companies to Recommend Windows 9. Why Not Mono 10. The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono |
| tracyanne Dec 30, 2008 3:32 PM EDT |
NC Scott that mean no comment. On advice from others I no longer comment on Roy's Obsession. |
| TxtEdMacs Dec 30, 2008 4:32 PM EDT |
TA and others, Well why are so many here obsessed in commenting upon the content & writer for Boycott Novell? My guess is they are at a loss on how to put their minds to more constructive use. Hence, I suggest finding a good novel to see real imagination at work. Think too, that helps to support your writers of choice, while keeping a few book publishers in business a few more weeks. I would also ask you to consider that even those well composed critiques of him and his words might be used to increase his page rankings, thus, exposing even more naive readers to those rants. That is, the very definition of unintended consequences. |
| azerthoth Dec 30, 2008 11:26 PM EDT |
vainrveenr, you missed one BIG point on your list there, only the article that are approved for the newswire are listed there, the ones that are turned down, arent. From posts here in the forums you would know that BN stuff is filtered heavily. |
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