Dear SLUGGers,
I have collected together all the recent e-mails on "M$ Dirt" into one posting, with all the links in one batch, below. Hopefully, it is easier to e-mail the whole lot to your friends (and enemies too). Brian ======================================================= Anti Microsoft Links ==================== Don't Be Soft On Microsoft! - an archive of NetAction's Microsoft-related publications. http://www.netaction.org/msoft/ http://www.netaction.org/msoft/winfish2.html a bit slow but... Gates Announces Security Death Squads http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/12/death.html The Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero last Monday. http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html The Original Halloween Documents http://www.opensource.org/halloween/ http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween6.html Monthly newsletter and a lot of links on security. http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0201.html Article: Who Needs Hackers? We've Got Microsoft! http://www.infowarrior.org/articles/2001-15.html The Financial Share Pyramid (as it was in 1999)... (very serious if your USA super fund has M$ shares.) http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html What's Wrong with M$.. http://central.dot.net.au/~rick/ms/whats_wrong_with_ms.html The Boycott M$ Home Page - a clearing house for a lot of sites... http://msbc.simplenet.com/ Microsoft and the Freedom to Subjugate web site http://www.geocities.com/free2subj/ Redmond Roundup is an index of 625 anti-Microsoft, anti-Gates, anti-Wintel, anti-monopoly, and pro-anti-trust sites on the Internet. http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/ Anti-Microsoft Association - Member of The International Anti-Microsoft Network http://users.aol.com/machcu/amsa.html A big page of anti-M$ links (none tested) http://www.sharoncolon.com/linux/page579.htm =========================================================== Previous SLUG postings only.... On Wed 16 Jan, Paul Copeland made the following spurious claims: > Yesterday I had a "friend" really get stuck into me regarding Linux v > Microsoft. I am curious does anyone know of a web page or web pages > which spell out some of the questionable practices of Micosoft over the > years. I have already seen www.mslinux.com , but I need something a > little more factual. Is it really worth the effort? Anyone who would defend a commercial, for-profit organisation (Microsoft, Nike, McDonalds, whoever) without being paid for the service isn't worth bothering arguing with. What's the point? Move on to the people with open, rational minds. Not the blind zealots who do Microsoft's marketing for them. Although I did always enjoy winding up the guy at an old workplace who actually had a framed picture of Bill Gates on his desk. I'm not joking! He never did work out that it was my cron job winnuking his machine randomly 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. ================================================================= > Hi All, > > Yesterday I had a "friend" really get stuck into me regarding Linux v > Microsoft. I am curious does anyone know of a web page or web pages > which spell out some of the questionable practices of Micosoft over the > years. I have already seen www.mslinux.com , but I need something a > little more factual. if you're a fan of the old paper based web sites, have a read of "Microsoft Secrets" by Cusumano and Selby (HarperCollins, 1995) which rosily documented their practices. Chapter 3 "Competing with Products and Standards", (megalomaniacally subtitled "Pioneer and Orchestrate Evolving Mass Markets"!), champions bold PRINCIPLES like: "Push volume sales and exclusive contracts to ensure that company products become and remain industry standards" This book is a goldmine of dubious business practices. It also brushes over the early history of the antitrust case against Microsoft, which was initiated in 1990, and predicts Microsoft's invulnerability. Oh, here's a more current rant about their approach to public relations and computer security: "Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities as public relations problems." -- Bruce Schneier, CRYPTOGRAM Jan 15, 2002 http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0201.html Of course, the antidote to all this is not to simply bash Microsoft and wish the legal system was in a better position to defend the industry from their practices, it is to create and promote the use of better, free software and open standards. btw. I heard that Evolution is now easier to use and more powerful than Outlook? Conrad. -- ======================================================================== -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
