Astroturf organization and false front group for Microsoft lobbying: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Technology_Leadership
Too bad for Microsoft that some techies can think critically and detect FUD, unlike most US citizens. John Hebert On 9/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anybody seen this crap: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170724,00.html > > > A couple seconds of google-fu produces these links that show he has some > pretty close ties to Microsoft: > > http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/eu/statements.asp > http://blogs.ipswitch.com/archives/2005/06/ > > > What an effin shame Fox is relying on this guy for its tech opinions. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050929/c4961a67/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 29 20:06:41 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hill) Date: Thu Sep 29 20:06:07 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most people don't have time for BS detection and that's why the web, search engines and online resources are revolutionary. The average person has fifteen minutes a day for news. Most people would rather do anything than listen to talking heads BS on things they don't have time to understand, much less change. A curious person, armed with a good search engine will be able to understand much more in less time. Sites like Google, Snopes and Wikipedia make FUD much harder to pull off. This promises better informed decision making all around. That's the big reason M$ hates Google. Honest reports are not favorable to them. They don't have the money or time to astroturf everyone, nor would that work. Bill Gates himself could bring Windoze and all the trimmings to me. He could talk for hours about what cool things his software (not mine!) can do for me. That's the best they could do and it would change nothing. I'm not so grateful for their stuff, that I will do as they say. The "I Agree" button would still chaff. Uptimes, stability and usability would remain low. The message to the contrary that Microsoft is desperate to get out has little to do with reality. Reality is what people see, do and talk about. Google is the grand indexer of all the above. It was interesting to see CompUSA listed as a founding company for DCI. That's one more good reason to shop local. Cherry pick CompUSA and Staples for cheap supplies then buy your system from Bits Technical or one of their dealers, Applix, Computer Exchange, Computer Heaven, etc. On Thursday 29 September 2005 04:29 pm, John Hebert wrote: > some techies can think critically and detect FUD, > unlike most US citizens.
