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Re: Stop lying, Roy

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ ed ] on Sunday 14 January 2007 10:47 \__
>
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:25:21 -0500
> > flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:55:26 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> > In article <1377338.S8rfopG2nD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> >  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> How NSA access was built into Windows
> >> > ...
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html
> >> >
> >> > This 6 year old story was thoroughly refuted 6 years ago.
> >>
> >> Clearly Roy Schestowitz is running out of material and as the panic of
> >> Vista's release starts to sink in, he is becoming more desperate
> >> because he knows that once Vista is released the press coverage will
> >> bury Linux on page 69 while Vista gets the banner.
> >
> > oh thats just not sensible. everyone knows that ms has only succeeded
> > through heavy marketing. that's marketing that has to be paid for.
> >
> > on the other side, we have something that is community driven. do you
> > think that windows would be successful without the marketing? i doubt
> > it. the extreme cost drives people away for a start, most free things
> > become the defacto eventually.
> >
> >> It's pretty pathetic that Roy has to resort to such underhanded
> >> tactics as misrepresenting subject lines, posting way off topic and
> >> now basic lying all to advocate Linux.
> >>
> >> I suppose it is a testament to how far the zealots will go to push
> >> their baby.
> >
> > what baby? as far as i know roy has no OSS projects on the go. roy is
> > just posting news to keep everyones finger on the pulse.
>
> No baby; no so-called 'God' either. I merely make observations based on the
> published literature from a reputable source. Even an army of a dozen shills
> can't deny the truth by pointing to 'some blog' and calling me a liar
> ('shoot the messenger' tactic). COLA won its level of 'noise' not because of
> participation by low society. Au contraire. COLA speaks about topics that
> could sometimes lead Web site-based forums to closure; they provoke
> companies which loathe the bitter truth whose dissmention is made possible
> (even indexed) owing to the explosive growth, reach and maturity of the
> World Wide Web.
>  

You greatly overrate the importance and impact of COLA.


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