Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 82.192.250.149]
on August 18, 2007 09:43 PM
If you take everything said by a company like Microsoft at face value, you'll always be confused.
Big picture: Microsoft wants to cripple the Free Software community. It has used deceitful advertising, FUD, patent threats, political lobbying, and illegal pressure on hardware manufacturers. No doubt it will continue to use these and other methods, and invent a few more.
You say I'm anti-Microsoft? Well, I don't keep my head in the sand, and I try to stay informed about what is going on around me, and I try to understand what I see. That has led me to hold certain opinions about Microsoft. It's wrong to be prejudiced against a company, but basing one's opinions on observed facts is not prejudice.
Now - with that as the background - read the story again. It's garbage, because it presents Microsoft mouthpieces as credible. There is no debate here. A debate pits one equally-credible person against another, and we don't have that here.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.192.250.149] on August 18, 2007 09:43 PMIf you take everything said by a company like Microsoft at face value, you'll always be confused.
Big picture: Microsoft wants to cripple the Free Software community. It has used deceitful advertising, FUD, patent threats, political lobbying, and illegal pressure on hardware manufacturers. No doubt it will continue to use these and other methods, and invent a few more.
You say I'm anti-Microsoft? Well, I don't keep my head in the sand, and I try to stay informed about what is going on around me, and I try to understand what I see. That has led me to hold certain opinions about Microsoft. It's wrong to be prejudiced against a company, but basing one's opinions on observed facts is not prejudice.
Now - with that as the background - read the story again. It's garbage, because it presents Microsoft mouthpieces as credible. There is no debate here. A debate pits one equally-credible person against another, and we don't have that here.
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