Re: Is Microsoft So Desperate It Resorts to Framing People?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:23:27 GMT, Charlie Wilkes wrote:


> They may not care about ethics, but they care about risk. Can you
> imagine the headlines if someone could prove that Microsoft is
> contaminating pro-Linux web sites with malware that targets Windows?

You mean like Roy Schestowitz's site
www.schestowitz.com did?
I'm not claiming Roy purposely planted the trojan, however I find it
interesting that even having been warned several weeks/months ago that his
site was doing "funny things" he did nothing about it until the site was
totally brought down.


> Aside from the impact on public trust, the feds would launch an
> investigation to determine who authorized the program, who knew about it,
> who carried out the operations, and how it was paid for. It would be a
> disaster for the management of the company as well as shareholders. And
> low-lifes who are willing to carry out such assignments are also the kind
> who would brag about it to someone, or blow the whistle to get attention,
> or resort to blackmail. Microsoft uses many sleazy business tactics...
> but the people who run the company aren't stupid.


Cue "stage left" Linux zealot pointint to the Halloween documents.



> They are concerned about Linux as a competitive threat. They would be
> crazy not to be. But they won't make Linux less of a competitive threat
> by harassing bloggers.

Of course not.
They are however concerned with people who libel their company and it's
products, when done on a massive level.
The average whiner they don't give a hoot about though.



> This is the same kind of reasoning the MI-5 guy uses to convince himself
> he is the target of a massive psy-ops program, with agents waiting to
> **** with his head wherever he goes. It makes sense to him. But it
> doesn't make sense to a sane outsider observer.
>
> Charlie

This group is completely loony, in case you have not discovered this for
yourself.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:36:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
> This group is completely loony, in case you have not discovered this for
> yourself.

I see people who can be interesting intellectually, when they discuss
aspects of technology that they understand, but tedious at the emotional
level, with this crap about how so-and-so gets paid to spam etc.

Charlie

If we were all sane, and the same, it would be totally boring!!
If you don't like it, don't come here; too easy!!!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Charlie Wilkes" wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:36:38 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> >
> > This group is completely loony, in case you have not discovered this for
> > yourself.
>
> I see people who can be interesting intellectually, when they discuss
> aspects of technology that they understand, but tedious at the emotional
> level, with this crap about how so-and-so gets paid to spam etc.
>
> Charlie
>