Manufacturing a case.
<Grain of salt>
For several months the Munchkins said my sites served malware. They LIED, but
they spread this lie in many places (Big Lie).
A few months went by.
Now, someone did some dirty job, hacking my site after many months of extremely
high activity, ranging from hacks around PHP-Nuke to other CMSs. I noticed
this, but said nothing in public. PJ refuses to speak about such things. The
Munchkins noticed this almost immediately (within hours and before anyone
else, including myself), which is suspicious.
I get accused of knowing about this for months (which is a lie, see first
paragraph again). They repeatedly make this lie in various forums (not just in
USENET) and back/mod each other up (puppet show tactics/pseudo audience). The
claims always come from usernames which make it clear it's the same people
from USENET, including what seems like agent "Smith", aka "harlowmonkey". I've
just have logged off in Digg (to disable filtering) and saw
username "flatfish" making the same accusations. The messages was, as usual,
quickly modded up by fellow agents.
Scott Douglas (Munchkin) makes accusations in public, under pseudonyms. He
claims bogus 'damages'. Concidence?
I've entered Google Gtoupos to avoid filters. Gary Stewart (Munchkin) says a
case is made against me. It's possibly just an intimidation, tactics, but you
never know...
</Grain of salt>
Mary Jo Foley sort of confirmed with me yesterday that Microsoft's 'personal
treatment' does exist (see some references below).
Does any of this ring a bell? To me it does.
The above is a theory, there is a lot of evidence to show it
(anonymous/pseudinymous characters will soon shout "paranoia" to bury or
deplete from the messages), but if it's true, it means that Microsoft is
unable to find dirt, so it's making some dirt up.
Shades of the attacks on Groklaw. Remember the /MYTHICAL/ DDOS attacks on
sys-con, which sys-con formally confirmed was a /LIE/? Or other lies about
IBM, which had SCO give legal harassment (using media placements as
manufactured 'evidence')? By the way, that 'spy woman', Maureen O'Gara is back
at sys-con, mysteriously enough. She too wrote an article claiming that PJ
is "a paranoid"
The world is far from perfect, but HEY! :-)
Let's just understand how Microsoft operates. It's really quite amusing when
you come to think of it. The company is so unable to compete with Home
Server/Vista/Longhorn (Navy moves to FOSS, Home Server is DOA, Apache keeps
gaining today and Vista is stuck at sub-normal market share), so it attacks
not only rival products but also those who 'dare' to report about them. Again,
references are appended for amusement (in the form of a harsh reality).
The more aggressive (or even criminal) Microsoft will become, the more bullets
it will shoot at its own foot. All these dirty tricks will be ineffective and
only be used against Microsoft.
In other news from yesterday, Kroes and her commission have just hired some
more lawyers. Watch out, Microsoft.
"If you flee the rules, you will be caught. And it will cost you dearly,"
-- Neelie Kroes (about Microsoft), February 27th, 2008
Related:
Microsoft Critics Assigned PR "Spooks"
,----[ Quote ]
| San Jose Mercury technology reporter Dan Gilmore recently discovered he's
| been assigned a special "owner" at one of Microsoft's public relations firms,
| Waggener-Edstrom. These spin-masters are attached to troublesome journalists
| like Gilmore who have the temerity to write uncomplimentary articles about
| the company or its products.
|
| The really irksome reporters, according to documents spirited from the
| Waggener-Edstrom offices, are also assigned "buddies" at Microsoft itself.
| John Dodge, the editor of PC Week, has a special buddy at Microsoft, and Mary
| Jo Foley at Smart Reseller, is the subject of a "Mary Jo six month plan.''
|
| These "owners" and "buddies" are just there to "help" the journalists, of
| course. How dare we think otherwise?
`----
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml
,----[ Quote ]
| "It also was strange to see just how many resources are aligned
| against me when I write a story about Microsoft."
`----
http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/enough_about_me.html
Tim Bray: Life Is Complicated
,----[ Quote ]
| Those with long memories might suggest a parallel between Rick’s position and
| mine when in 1997, I was sitting on the XML Working Group and co-editing the
| spec, on a pro bono basis as an indie consultant. Netscape hired me to
| represent their interests, and when I announced this, controversy ensued.
| Which is a nice way of saying that Microsoft went berserk; tried
| unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious,
| deeply personal extended attack in which they tried to destroy my career and
| took lethal action against a small struggling company because my wife worked
| there. It was a sideshow of a sideshow of the great campaign to bury Netscape
| and I’m sure the executives have forgotten; but I haven’t.
`----
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/01/24/Mixup
Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature
,----[ Quote ]
| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50
,----[ Quote ]
| Quinn: Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
| the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
| or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
| is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
| Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
| Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
| playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729
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