Will, I'm not quite sure where to begin to refute your delusory conception of reality. I'm not even sure it would be worth my time to do, so I'll ask you one simple question first:
Q: Can you be reasoned with? In other words, can you understand a rational argument and concede that you are wrong, if I can prove that to be the case? A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice. Respectively, I am willing to concede that you are right, if you can prove your assertions. John Hebert On 9/30/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I can be serious. Microsoft has two core businesses: hype and FUD. Google is a much bigger threat to Microsoft than any application maker. > Microsoft can survive a few percentage points of market share going to > alternate software, but they can't survive the public getting an accurate > view. Google provides all sorts of information Microsoft would like to > suppress. The web is filled with memories of Microsoft's (1) moral, (2) > technical, and (3) legal shortcomings. > > 1. Links to objective information. M$ is PR freaky and it costs them big > bucks to repair the damage truth causes them. The company that bought a TV > network and spends billions of dollars on hype is dismayed everytime > someone > publishes an embarrassing truth. They are more dismayed when you and I can > remember without much effort. Cases in point: > > -Microsoft spams OS/2 forums, > -Microsoft breaks DrDOS with pre planned PR, > -The letter writing campaign you mentioned. > -The Apple switcher. > -Suing public schools. > -Pretending not to be M$ employees at teacher conferences. > > The list goes on and on. It's so monstrous that normal people are inclined > to > call someone a crank for remembering it all. But it's all in black and > white > and easy to find, thanks in part to google. Here are a couple of lists: > > http://www.hillnotes.net/fixit/ms_bad.html > http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html > > 2. Links to using and building your alternate OS. Debian is one of the > best > documented distributions out there, but Google shows me what manual I need > to > read. I've got libGD on my laptop, but it took a trip to google for me to > realize it would be useful for my advanced imaging class. For the average > user, google leads the way to easy to use distros like Mepis and forms a > better user's manual than anything that ever came from Dell. > > 3. grocklaw.org <http://grocklaw.org>, EFF, enough said. Well, almost. > Microsoft and other large > publishers are busy pushing through laws that have been well criticized. A > little searching shows how this is the most important issue of all. No > informed person would give money to a company that creates things like the > DMCA. > > If you don't think Microsoft would like to suppress the above information, > just try looking for it on MSN's hand dulled results. Typically, Linux > problems make the list and actual information, such as project web > listings, > do not. As Microsoft has in the past tried to sabotage competitors, I'm > sure > they are busy Google Bombing day and night and this is why good technical > information is becoming harder to find. A Google search for "DMA direct > memory access" takes you to wikipedia (also under attack) and from there > to > O'Riely. Microsoft takes you to their support page about reading 20 digit > product numbers and installing the "latest" mother board drivers to make > busmastering work under Windoze 95. > > More than anything else, though, Google and free software are graphic > proofs > that Microsoft's and closed source's philosophical foundation is rotten. > Microsoft says, "give me your money and do as I say and all will be easy > for > you." Then you compare IE to Firefox/Konqueror, Oultook to > KMail/Evolution, > KDE/Gnome/Enlightenment/WindowMaker/Anything to the Windows desktop, > Apache > to IIS. Free software is proving that RMS's community of sharing provides > more practical results. Google is a household word and it runs off > something > Microsoft could never pull off. > > Microsoft is made of hype, an aging codebase and anti-competitive > practices. > None of these things can stand public scrutiny. > > On Friday 30 September 2005 03:13 am, John Hebert wrote: > >> That's the big reason M$ hates Google. > > > > > > You can't be serious. Bill Gates hates Google because he doesn't want > the > > public to inform themselves? Reminds me of Dennis Miller's quote about > Bill > > Gates: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dennis_Miller > > > > Are you sure it has nothing to do with Google competing with Microsoft > as > > an Internet application services suite? > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20051001/db3f2b94/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 1 12:04:18 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Bendily) Date: Sat Oct 1 12:03:43 2005 Subject: Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Q: Can you be reasoned with? > Apparently, from his previous posts, he cannot. ;) BB
