Paul Lussier said:
> In a message dated: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:59:09 EST
> Jeffry Smith said:
>
> >Out-right lying? I haven't seen that. Evasive answers, FUD, diversion, etc,
> >but out-right lying? That's actually against the law in advertising.
>
> Okay, maybe mis-leading is a better term. But IMO, which is obviously
> different from the law, leading someone to believe that something is true when
> it is plainly false is equivalent to lying to them.
Definitely misleading. MS is famed for it. Sins of "omission" - like saying
how their competition doesn't support something, when MS doesn't either (the
case I'm thinking about was support for a standard that was still draft -
NOBODY supports a "final" standard before it's standard).
As Reagan said (about agreements with the USSR): Trust, but verify.
>
> To say that a server has been running for days without anyone checking on it
> leads one to believe that W2K is stable. It is not. IMO that is lying.
Well, if they run it for two days without checking, they're not lying ;-).
>
> Granted, legally they can claim "We never said you *shouldn't* check on your
> servers" or "It's *possible* that a server could run for days" and still be
> correct. However, reality dictates that a Windows system of any type will not
> run for days if there is anything running on it at all. Yes, I'm sure you
> could "just boot a system and leave it" and it will run for days, maybe even
> months that way. But it won't if there's any utilization of any kind
> on that system.
Hey, they never said there were any apps running! (I don't think, I haven't
seen the ad in question). What, you want - everything? If you wanted apps,
you should go with a stable OS like Linux.
>
> To me, that's lying. They're telling me that if I buy they're product, I can
> just set it up and forget about it. That is completely false; i.e. lying.
>
> But you're right, I'd probably have a tough time proving that in a court room.
I can see why you don't work marketing 8-)
jeff
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