IF you write critically about Microsoft, then Microsoft may be 'kind' enough to contact your boss and try to get you in trouble (maybe even fired). We know this from a couple of new victims, whose names and nationalities we keep off the record so as to not aggravate it further.
“One person suspects that Vivek Kundra may be the latest case of high-level retribution.”The first story story is that a national manager of Microsoft has threatened, personally, a critic of the company's policies and attacked the person through the employer. We have actually heard a similar story from 2 people in the past week, but not in both cases was a Microsoft manager (local CEO) directly involved.
Having written critically about Microsoft, writes one person to us, "this got me in a world of shit... but it was worth it. Or I hope it was. It remains to be seen.
"The CEO of Microsoft [country name omitted] called me up on [...] and had a very long talk with me about how naughty I was. The first fifteen minutes he was all, "this is lies!" .. then he slowly changed the tone to "you shouldn't underestimate what good we've done" [...] and then, at the end of it, I managed to pin him to the wall, and he kind of backed off after that.
"And then [he] called my boss."
Remember Peter Quinn? One person suspects that Vivek Kundra may be the latest case of high-level retribution. "This looks like it might be worse retribution than what happened to Peter Quinn," wrote a reader to us one hour ago. But in this particular case, no proof exists.
Anyway, this would be typical Microsoft behaviour. For details, see for example:
Comments
G. Michaels
2009-03-16 20:00:16
And of course your "readers" are sure up there in the credibility index.
David Gerard
2009-03-17 01:16:41
(A G. Michaels comment? This article wins a point.)
And to think this is the sort of behaviour Scientology is better known for.
G. Michaels
2009-03-17 06:30:44
As for track record, of course. No need for accuracy when you are Right (TM) and the evildoers have a track record. How silly of me.
But anyhoo, fancy seeing you here, although not entirely surprising given the kind of company BoycottBoy keeps. I should stop by one of these days and say hi, look over what they're deleting, what guidelines they're rewriting to help the non-existent cabals (how are those Israel articles doing, btw... Slim and Jayjg still pounding away or did they manage to finally obliterate everyone?), who's being lovingly shafted by ArbCom, when are we getting the next Essjay, etc. Anyway, I really should stop by. It's been a while. Well, best regards as always.
David Gerard
2009-03-17 13:50:09
G. Morons
2009-03-17 14:54:57
Roy Schestowitz
2009-03-17 16:42:42
Eruaran
2009-03-18 13:09:58
Go on then, get to it. Promote FOSS, give people a real choice, put it in your advertising, openly criticise Microsoft in publicly available material.
I guarantee you'll get your evidence soon enough.
Needs Sunlight
2009-03-21 13:04:21
In review, it looks like it was a smear, after all:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/chief-information-officer-is-quietly-reinstated/?hp
Dave
2009-04-06 09:50:17
People like that should be fired
G. Michaels
2009-04-06 05:59:41
As I have continually asked your hero, I would eat my crow and like it if I were *ever* shown a *single* shred of evidence that Eeevil Microsoft is now or has ever specifically targeted him or any of you in any way, shape or form.
Isn't it fascinating that none of you can come up with something like that? A request so simple, considering the fact that all of you make those claims a central part of your decidedly unpalatable advocacy efforts? Roy's nymshifter friend from Slashdot has the exact same problem. It's uncanny, really.
And David. Please understand that I don't dislike you personally. I think you are a rather bright and intelligent person. In reality I consider you a symptom of the disease that affects Wikipedia, nothing more. Perhaps I was a bit overboard there, so I was actually going to offer a belated apology until I saw your response. I don't know what kind of problem you might have on Slashdot, but I'm sure you'll be disappointed to learn that I didn't even know you had an account there until tonight when I went looking for it. I'm not sure what kind of comments you're referring to, and I wouldn't care to speculate on who is posting them, but I wouldn't be surprised that someone over there would insult or attack you, given how much disruption and bad blood people like you have wreaked on Wikipedia. But the idiotic "oh you see how they're after me" cop-out in the style of BoycottBoy and twitter and his whole cadre I honestly did not expect from you.
Sorry for the lag here, by the way. Apparently Microsoft doesn't pay me enough to post during the week, so it's only Sundays once the kid has been put to bed. I should really ask for more money :)