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| schestowitz | msb: | Oct 06 20:50 |
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| schestowitz | > On Oct 6, 6:45 am, "bubba" <bu...@nospam.com> wrote: | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | >> useless rat shit "chrisv" <chr...@nospam.invalid> wrote | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | >> ... | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | >> shut the fsck up you useless fscking turd. | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | >> "chrisv" is a liar. "chrisv" is a stupid piece of shit. | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > That is Microsoft Corporation posting the same particular | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > smear attack that it has done at least 178 times before, | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > using yet another false identity -- "bubba". Other recent | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > identities used for repetitions of that same attack, always | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > using the same phrases, were "Dmitri", "Yuri", "Marco", | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > "Susan", and "Steven Morganstein". | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > The lying propaganda campaign against Linux in COLA -- | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > comp.os.linux.advocacy -- has involved about 500,000 posts | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > over more than 10 years. It is designed to repel and | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > dissuade visitors to the newsgroup who are thinking about | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > trying Linux for themselves. COLA is read by thousands | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > of people. | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > No other entity than Microsoft has the motivation to | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > do such a propaganda operation, and it follows the | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > instructions in Microsoft's propaganda manual exactly: | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > "Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > associated with mental deficiency, as in, `he believes | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2.' Just keep | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, ..." | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > The anti-Linux posters make the absurd claim that this | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > huge propaganda campaign was done by unconnected bored | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > people with nothing better to do, who all somehow by chance | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > settled in COLA, and without any incentive at all from | Oct 06 20:50 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft made half a million anti-Linux pro-Microsoft | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > propaganda posts using similar phrases and techniques | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > to one another over a span of more than ten years. | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft's other attacks against Linux have included: | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > 1. paying SCO $100 million to try to kill Linux with an | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > entirely fraudulent copyright lawsuit, | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > 2. forbidding by means of secret licensing conditions | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > the inclusion of Linux on any computer that's sold | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > with Microsoft Windows, | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > 3. paying millions of dollars to PR companies to perpetrate | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > fraudulent campaigns of writing pro-Microsoft letters | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > to editors claiming to be from ordinary citizens, | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > 4. bribing columnists and analysts to write fraudulent | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > anti-Linux columns and articles. | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > a trout in the milk." | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 06 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > -- Henry David Thoreau | Oct 06 20:51 |
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