Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 27, 2004 11:04 PM
Microsoft claims the *real* problem is that not everyone runs their software. If everyone did, they could fix the problem. Now, all accounts seem to bear out that something like 95 percent of everyone does use their software, and that's what almost all of the spam comes from.
Big spam shops are big business, they all use MS OSs and tools. MS itself is big on email marketing. It has spammed it's customers more than once, and a few months ago said it was turning all the msn and hotmail email addresses over to "reponsible" marketing "partners". Meaning spammers.
MS is fully spam friendly. Some of us have had a hunch that MS in some form or another is actually teamed with some mass mailing cartels in order to drive the need for a MS patented technology to replace everything that isn't Exchange.
Paranoid? The question is, are you paranoid enough?
Remember, all this friendly talk about MS not charging for a license to use software that contains patents that they are not disclosing, and promising to play nice, is the same MS we keep catching time and time again with their little fingers in the cookie jar, (as it were).
MS respects no law unless forced. Then they wiggle around it.
They always have, they always will. Their past speaks for itself.
Didn't MS go after slashdot for some reader quotes taken from<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/PUBLIC/ MS documents, over copyright violation?
Think carefully before you sign.
They are *NOT* your friends, they eat their friends.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 27, 2004 11:04 PMbear out that something like 95 percent of everyone does use their software, and that's what almost all of the spam comes from.
Big spam shops are big business, they all use MS OSs and tools. MS itself is big on email marketing. It has spammed it's customers more than once, and a few months ago said it was turning all the msn and hotmail email addresses over to
"reponsible" marketing "partners". Meaning spammers.
MS is fully spam friendly. Some of us have had a hunch that MS in some form or another is actually teamed with some mass mailing cartels in order to drive the need for a MS patented technology to replace everything that isn't Exchange.
Paranoid? The question is, are you paranoid enough?
Remember, all this friendly talk about MS not charging for a license to use software that
contains patents that they are not disclosing,
and promising to play nice, is the same MS we keep catching time and time again with their little
fingers in the cookie jar, (as it were).
MS respects no law unless forced.
Then they wiggle around it.
They always have, they always will.
Their past speaks for itself.
Didn't MS go after slashdot for some reader quotes taken from<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/PUBLIC/ MS documents, over copyright violation?
Think carefully before you sign.
They are *NOT* your friends, they eat their
friends.
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