Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 17, 2007 11:22 PM
Ok. Let me disclose my LACK of bias. I'm not listed in the article and do not work for or enjoy financial gain from ANY of the parties involved. Let me go on to say that while I have used Linux exclusively for business and personal computing for the past 8 years, I am NOT one of these zealots that fantasizes about a utopian society brought about by Linux and free software. Indeed, I frequently rail against Linux.com articles just like this one because they are so bent on this pathetic mentality. It's software! It's not religion!
No. This is simply the way the system works.
You are implying that I should simply accept and learn to live with a system that is both corrupt and broken. Sorry, I'm unwilling to accept that. Submarine legislation needs to stop and I will continue to demand such until it comes to pass, no matter how futile you feel it to be.
Indeed, it is that hypocritical idea that annoys me most about this article. 'Ooh Microsoft is teh evil for lobbying against the bill.' but it's all fair play for some schmuck to sneak their pet pork into law because THEY think it's acceptable? Hell no!
you claim that no one cares... but you don't bother mentioning ANY issues that pertain to the bill itself!
Why on earth would I waste my energy prattling on about matters which NO ONE cares about? I am not a politician and I don't waste my energy on such stupidity.
you wouldn't happen to have a dog in this fight, would you? Hmmm??
Yes I do have an interest in this. I am an IT professional with a major personal interest in Linux and a resident of Florida. I also try to be level headed and look at the bigger picture. That allows me to see that biased articles about relatively unimportant issues like document file formats are inconsequential in comparison to larger issues like taxes and home owners insurance. It also allows me to see that your pathetic attempts to cast aspersions and innuendo about my anonymity are nothing more than an old Microsoft tactic of creating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in order to distract from the matter at hand.
I think I will cast some asspersions of my own in an equally transparrent attempt to draw you out and redirict the issue. Why do you abuse children?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 17, 2007 11:22 PMNo. This is simply the way the system works.
You are implying that I should simply accept and learn to live with a system that is both corrupt and broken. Sorry, I'm unwilling to accept that. Submarine legislation needs to stop and I will continue to demand such until it comes to pass, no matter how futile you feel it to be.
Indeed, it is that hypocritical idea that annoys me most about this article. 'Ooh Microsoft is teh evil for lobbying against the bill.' but it's all fair play for some schmuck to sneak their pet pork into law because THEY think it's acceptable? Hell no!
you claim that no one cares... but you don't bother mentioning ANY issues that pertain to the bill itself!
Why on earth would I waste my energy prattling on about matters which NO ONE cares about? I am not a politician and I don't waste my energy on such stupidity.
you wouldn't happen to have a dog in this fight, would you? Hmmm??
Yes I do have an interest in this. I am an IT professional with a major personal interest in Linux and a resident of Florida. I also try to be level headed and look at the bigger picture. That allows me to see that biased articles about relatively unimportant issues like document file formats are inconsequential in comparison to larger issues like taxes and home owners insurance. It also allows me to see that your pathetic attempts to cast aspersions and innuendo about my anonymity are nothing more than an old Microsoft tactic of creating Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in order to distract from the matter at hand.
I think I will cast some asspersions of my own in an equally transparrent attempt to draw you out and redirict the issue. Why do you abuse children?
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