• Peter Quinn
• Microsoft Smear Campaigns in India: Watch and Be Disgusted
• OOXML Defeated Easily in India; Microsoft in Hot Water in New Zealand Over Smear Campaign
• “If you Can’t Deny the Truth, Run a Smear Campaign” (Updated)
• Bullying, Intimidation and Smears, Courtesy of Microsoft
• Microsoft Launches “Get the Facts”-esque Smear Campaign Against ODF and OOXML’s Critics
• Smear Campaign Against Boycott Novell (Updated)

• Windows DRM: A Response to the Disinformation (Peter Gutmann)
• Life Is Complicated (Tim Bray)
• Intimidation (Pamela Jones)
• Ethics (Pamela Jones)
• A Microsoft Slur in the OOXML Saga — Did I Tell You or Did I Tell You? (Mathew Holloway)
• Microsoft Says Worker Wrote Smear of Rival

What @Butthead and @Chris failed to take into account was the difference between documented offenses listed here and the the name calling and other ad hominems coming from MS boosters. Unfounded accusations and personal attacks are smears.

It’s possible for a company and a product line to suck. Get over it.

I’m fuzzy on what you expected would happen when you crossed the line from “Boycott this company because they have a deal with Microsoft, patents, etc” to personal smears, gleeful predictions of layoffs and doom for the people who work there.

Whatever happened to those massive Novell layoffs, btw? The ones that your “informant” told you about?

BTW, I wouldn’t allow any comments on this site that like the ones above which are just angry attacks – as long as they are just stupid accusations without actual content or arguments, they are a waste of storage, IMHO.

The fact that unlike many other sites (e.g. Groklaw) we never censored anything is actually a strength. We hide nothing. The same goes for IRC where we tolerate some very abusive characters.

Keep on your good work – I am not always 100% your opinion, but it is very important to have a second voice together with Groklaw.

Thanks. This weekend we’ll try to sort out the remaining hosting issues. In the mean time we just try to keep out of trouble.

I hope not – he/she wouldn’t feel good, as a once pretty bride now in the arms of ugly Sauron and dying….

BTW, I wouldn’t allow any comments on this site that like the ones above which are just angry attacks – as long as they are just stupid accusations without actual content or arguments, they are a waste of storage, IMHO. If you answer or even publish them, you might encourage them.

Keep on your good work – I am not always 100% your opinion, but it is very important to have a second voice together with Groklaw.

I think perhaps if you applied to yourself the rules you preach onto others, your site would not be here.

Toodles.

just let me say that I find it totally hilarious if you feel harassed cause of some “smear campaign” – after all “smear campaign” is how most people would classify this site.

However, regarding the “fight the arguments, not the messenger” topic: I think it is fair to say that it is a total waste of time to try to argue with you – which people proofed over and over right on this site. You are simply avoiding the point over and over and the one time I was bored enough to force you on it you even admitted that you have absolutely no intention to show the objective truth but simply your own strange POV.

So, how you can still expect people to “argue” with you is plain beyond me.