On 2003.12.20 21:04 "Melancon, Mike" wrote: > This must be the hardest working guy at Microsoft. He also posted on the > Tulsa-LUG mailing list Friday afternoon (I'm a former BRlug attendee now > living in Oklahoma, which is why I'm on both lists). Additionally, I went > Googling for his name and email, and found variations of this same message > on several boards: > > http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/50/347546/2003-12-09/2003-12-15/0 > http://lists.gslug.org/pipermail/gslug-general/2003-November/000090.html > http://www.jukie.net/pipermail/ottawa-wifi/2003-December.txt >
Hey, you are right. He's all over the place, though I doubt it's hard work. Microsoft has been keeping lists of their "competition". Here's some other junk I dug up on him. He's famous for name calling and big ignorant stuff. He seems to also have trouble with Lookout, though that might be intentional. Thank you Dustin for keeping him off the list. Google is your friend. I love the gslug list where he sent in LookOut html formated mail and swore he was not being paid to do this, "P.S. This report is a skunkworks project of mine, and really doesn't have anything to do with my "day" job." Ha ha, like any Microsoft employee can do anything on the internet without permision. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/29/1421223.shtml?tid=109&tid=187 Is this the same ass that said this? " Linux may be a great way for computer-literate individuals to get under the hoods of their computers for little cost, but it's nothing more than a convenient form of protest and public relations for the major software vendors that plan to support it. If nothing else, the Linux community has an influence beyond its numbers, and getting on its good side might help sales elsewhere. As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics, Microsoft (and other NOS vendors) have nothing to worry about. -- Michael Surkan, ZDNet. " http://lwn.net/2001/1115/history.php3 Trying to get on someone's good side are we Mike? Note that ZDNet has pulled the full article, except in Japan. http://www.zdnet.co.jp/pcweek/archives/990118/990118p3401.html Just three years before that he used Linux as "mail bait" for PC Magazine: http://linuxtoday.com/news/archives/199812/08 This month, he also claims to be interested in security: http://seclists.org/lists/firewall-wizards/2003/Dec/0083.html Hey, looks like that's an old interest for him: "Armed with Internet Security Systems Inc.'s SafeSuite 4.0 [for Windows NT], network managers can move past the reactionary plugging of security gaps after network security has been compromised and start focusing their efforts at preventing an invasion before it happens." - Michael Surkan PC Week, SafeSuite spots net holes, December 18, 1996 http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:CYAnSeS2TF8J:www.netsys.com/firewalls/firewalls-9612/0673.html+%22Michael+Surkan%22+linux&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Ha ha, NT proactive security. Is this the same dude who also quoted by these dorks? But the zealots at Justice do not subscribe to a cohesive logic or they would apply it evenly and consistently. Michael Surkan of PC Week pointed out their inconsistency. "If Microsoft is forced to take Internet Explorer out of Windows 95 or Windows NT, then by all rights Sun should have to stop shipping Solaris 2.6 with the HotJava browser, as it does now. Isn't Sun being 'anti-competitive' with its inclusion of E-mail software and Web servers in Solaris 2.6 for intranets? The same arguments that are leveled at Microsoft for making life difficult for users could easily be made about Sun and Novell." http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:btvo_8rTXTMJ:winemaking.jackkeller.net/handsoff.asp+%22Michael+Surkan%22+linux&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 another LUG: http://www.mwvlug.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=18 (ha ha, he tried to delete his name but forgot the html version LookOut left) Google is such a good collective memory, it's not a big surprise the Microsoft wants to purchase and extinguish it.
