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Re: [News] Linux Steps in Where Windows Cannot Cope -- Ultra-mobile PCs

____/ Mark Kent on Monday 23 July 2007 10:26 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Can Linux Save the UMPC?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| A possible solution to many of the problems with the UMPC, especially the
>>| ones that deal with slow performance, is to use Linux on the device.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1111
>> 
>> It is already heading in this direction. Intel called Windows "fat" and it
>> is moving towards Linux, despite fear of Microsoft's wrath.
>> 
> 
> Devices are certainly the right way forward;  the continued push by
> Microsoft to force higher and higher-powered machines onto the public at
> large in the light of the major concerns with respect to global warming,
> pollution and power shortages as well as a move to total mobility rather
> suggests that Vista is seeking to create a market which nobody is
> remotely interested in.  I'm sure several major companies will go with
> it, as they tend to lack the agility and inventiveness of smaller
> operations which can change-course far more quickly, but overall, I
> cannot see Vista ever being a winner.

Neither can industry analysts, unless they are paid to conduct a 'study' for
Microsoft.


http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03096.pdf

“There’s an interesting article in the April 2007 issue of Harper’s magazine
about panels, audits, and experts. It is called CTRL-ALT-DECEIT and is from
evidence in Comes v. Microsoft, a class action suit in Iowa. Here’s a
paragraph from a document admitted into evidence, called “Generalized
Evangelism Timeline,” about guerrilla or evangelical marketing:

Working behind the scenes to orchestrate “independent” praise of our technology
is a key evangelism function. “Independent” analysts’ reports should be
issued, praising your technology and damning the competitors (or ignoring
them). “Independent consultants should write articles, give conference
presentations, moderate stacked panels on our behalf, and set themselves up as
experts in the new technology, available for just $200/hour. “Independent”
academic sources should be cultivated and quoted (and granted research money).

They advise cultivating “experts” early and recommending that they not publish
anything pro-Microsoft, so that they can be viewed as “independent” later on,
when they’re needed. This type of evangelical or guerilla marketing is
apparently quite common in the high-tech fields, and seems to be used
liberally by open source developers.

The document admitted into evidence also says, “The key to stacking a panel is
being able to choose the moderator,” and explains how to find “pliable”
moderators–those who will sell out.

It is all a big money game. Most activists in any field know of
countless “hearings,” in which hundreds of citizens would testify before a
panel, only to be ignored in favor of two or three industry “experts.” When a
panel is chosen, the outcome seems to be a foregone conclusion. As with
elections, they don’t leave anything to chance.”
(a post from a Mark E. Smith about exhibit PX03096 “Evangelism is War” from
Comes v. Microsoft).

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