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Re: [News] Anti-Microsoft Sentiments Are Microsoft's Fault

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:1624317.Cy6IONPXx2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> __/ [ amicus_curious ] on Thursday 28 December 2006 20:39 \__
>
>>
>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:20845373.eOU1BzzRrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> The content is as old as a whole decade, but it helps in demonstarting
>>> that
>>> Microsoft's negative image is well earned.
>>>
>> That is a tale often told in this forum, I have observed, but out in the
>> rest of the world one obtains results such as:
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/globalmostadmired/top50/
>>
>> that show that Microsoft's image is far from tarnished.  The constant
>> denial of the anti-Microsoft groups is reminiscent of the ravings of 
>> Iraqi
>> Information Minister
>> Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf during OIF.
>
> A tale, eh? Coming from you, a Microsoft paid shill (just searching the 
> Web
> with your name reveals this), this means nothing. Want proof? THERE. In 
> your
> face!

You seem to be trying to dodge the fact that the cite is from CNN and 
references Fortune magazine.  I merely assert that serious businessmen and 
serious reporters seem to have a view contrary to yours.  You go on about 
how Microsoft has a negative image as if it were a fact, but the neutral 
evidence shows you are wrong.  In your desperation to believe ill of 
Microsoft, you seem willing to fabricate tales.  That hardly improves your 
credibility.

The facts are in plain view.  Microsoft has a very positive image in the 
minds of those who use their products and who deal with them daily.

>
> Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
> | Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
> | Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
> | break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
> | Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
> |
> | "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with 
> anti-Linux.
> | ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what 
> is
> | sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut 
> off
> | the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in 
> the
> | first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
> | partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its 
> Linux
> | business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its desktop 
> PCs
> | in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered subsequently, six
> | months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of Linux on the 
> desktop
> | the previous winter.
> |
> | Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
> | that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19/microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
>
> Snipping out the words that come from Iowa's antitrust will do you no
> favours. No payrise either...
>
Curiously, there is no corroberation of that anecdote and nothing credible 
as evidence of any malfeasance.  It is easy to believe that the OEM sales 
manager at Microsoft would propose turning up the intensity of lobbying 
against Linux offerings at Dell and other prominent OEMs.  I would not doubt 
that in the least.  However, there is a suspicious lack of any evidence that 
Microsoft actually did such a thing rather than merely discuss the potential 
of doing it.

For all you know, Steve Ballmer may have said "I would if I could, Steven, 
but the DOJ is on us like white on rice and we'd never get away with it. 
Better cool it and let the Linux people crash and burn on their own.  Those 
fools couldn't sell a life preserver to a drowning man, anyway.  No 
worries."  Conspiracy is only a crime after the fact.  If I think about 
robbing a bank and decide that I will not do it, that is not against the 
law.




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