Microsoft Mouths in the Press: Michael Gartenberg
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-10-15 14:05:27 UTC
- Modified: 2008-10-15 14:42:32 UTC
'Analyst hat' for attacks on GNU/Linux
There are some harsh words for GNU/Linux in this new IDG article. [rel="nofollow"]
Is IDG, whose
parent company does a lot of business with Microsoft, badmouthing GNU/Linux? Well, not so fast! It's more likely to do with the writers among their ranks. As we mentioned before [
1,
2,
3,
4], Michael Gartenberg is
a former Microsoft employee (
evangelist even). This is
not the first time that he bashes GNU/Linux in the press and there are similar examples of Microsoft-oriented 'analysts' or former employees who do this.
In other
FUD sightseeing, yesterday we wrote about
an article from Ars Technica, which Preston Gralla is echoing now. Some readers described him as a "shill", but we don't subscribe to this assessment based on his long posting/publishing history. Either way, he chose the provocative headline
"Is version 3.0 the last great version for OpenOffice.org?" He is citing only a blog from which the badmouthing came (a Novell employee). Thank you, Novell, for
fueling OpenOffice.org FUD.
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Comments
Needs Sunlight
2008-10-15 15:10:26
They gravitate to positions of responsibility and then abuse the trust granted that role in order to advance an agenda shown time and again to be harmful. Fraud it is, but a whole new level of fraud and apparently one that current processes for handling white-collar crime are unprepared to deal with.