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Re: Alex Jones claims Microsoft is a front for IBM

Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In article <ld7xk.25143$rD2.21069@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>> 
>> >> > <http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1874753788>
>> >> 
>> >>    Sydney, 2 September 2008, A new IDC report has shown the competition in
>> >>    the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market in Australia and New
>> >>    Zealand (ANZ) has intensified over the last 12 months. Oracle has
>> >>    established a strong presence in the market, challenging other
>> >>    incumbents including IBM, CA, Sun and Novell.
>> >> 
>> >> I think you fat-fingered something.
>> >> 
>> >> I have no idea what you're getting at with that article.
>> >
>> > Nothing leapt out from it?  No clear evidence that Microsoft was behind 
>> > that IDC report?  Nothing nefarious about it appearing in a Linux 
>> > magazine?
>> >
>> > Read deeper.  Roy managed to use that as that start of a long spiel 
>> > about how Microsoft money is controlling the content of InfoWorld, 
>> > ComputerWorld, JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, MacUser, MacWorld, Network World, 
>> > and PC World are all on the take from Microsoft.  Yet you think *Moshe* 
>> > is the loony-tune, and Roy is sane!?
>> 
>> Moshe is loony-tune.  As for Roy, I must have missed that one.
>> 
>> You'd have done better to quote Roy-written text or link to it, rather
>> than make some mysterious allusion that calls your motives into
>> question.
>
> If I'd simply quoted Roy-written text or linked to it, you would not 
> have looked, your automatic belief in everything Roy says would have 
> kicked in.

Yes. Like a whipped cur that quivers behind his master heals.

>
> By just citing the original article, I was giving you a chance to read 
> it, and be puzzled why I would mention since an innocent story as if 
> there was something significant.  I figured that you would express that 
> puzzlement, Roy would see that and jump in, and demonstrate how loony he 
> actually is, in a way that even you might see as looney.

He can not see Roy's lips move from the back.


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you're embarrassed at being an idiot?"
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