Comments on: The silence of the shills? http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-silence-of-the-shills/ Celebrating FOSS, exposing FUD! Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:07:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: How Microsoft Gags Dissenters and Bribes or Rewards Supporters | Boycott Novell http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-silence-of-the-shills/#comment-1410 How Microsoft Gags Dissenters and Bribes or Rewards Supporters | Boycott Novell Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:19:20 +0000 http://openbytes.wordpress.com/?p=1701#comment-1410 [...] he correctly points out, the FTC intends to combat this practice which Microsoft relies on. We wrote about this earlier [1, [...] [...] he correctly points out, the FTC intends to combat this practice which Microsoft relies on. We wrote about this earlier [1, [...]

]]> By: xD http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-silence-of-the-shills/#comment-1395 xD Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:32:31 +0000 http://openbytes.wordpress.com/?p=1701#comment-1395 Googling windows vista stories Gets like 15X more hits than Windows vista success stories The latter has many post-here and sarcastic hits Googling windows vista stories
Gets like 15X more hits than
Windows vista success stories
The latter has many post-here and sarcastic hits

]]> By: openbytes http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-silence-of-the-shills/#comment-1372 openbytes Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:16:34 +0000 http://openbytes.wordpress.com/?p=1701#comment-1372 Hi David. I think it does though attack the most dangerous person of all, the blogger who appears "honest". I think we live in a world where people are quite savvy about advertising and know that things like "get the facts" or the latest MS advert are bound to favor MS otherwise they wouldn't use them. Where the danger is (IMO) is when you have a respected blogger who, to all intents and purposes is a "normal user" spouting pro-proprietary FUD. IMO its more likely to be taken seriously. We've seen examples highlighted here many times. There was even a blogger who decided to announce to the world about the free laptop he received from MS. If the FTC can tackle more of these then it will be a big win for honest held belief on the net. IMO. I don't think "he who cannot be named" will have much to worry about since he doesnt live in the US, never the less, I bet he is seeing his cashcow dry up recently. Hi David.

I think it does though attack the most dangerous person of all, the blogger who appears “honest”.

I think we live in a world where people are quite savvy about advertising and know that things like “get the facts” or the latest MS advert are bound to favor MS otherwise they wouldn’t use them.

Where the danger is (IMO) is when you have a respected blogger who, to all intents and purposes is a “normal user” spouting pro-proprietary FUD. IMO its more likely to be taken seriously.

We’ve seen examples highlighted here many times. There was even a blogger who decided to announce to the world about the free laptop he received from MS. If the FTC can tackle more of these then it will be a big win for honest held belief on the net. IMO.

I don’t think “he who cannot be named” will have much to worry about since he doesnt live in the US, never the less, I bet he is seeing his cashcow dry up recently.

]]> By: David Gerard http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-silence-of-the-shills/#comment-1371 David Gerard Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:58:51 +0000 http://openbytes.wordpress.com/?p=1701#comment-1371 Good Lord, that verges on parody. We need a competition to come up with the best Microsoft shill tweet, e.g. "I heard Hitler got IBM to do the death camps' paperwork using an early version of Linux" "STUDIES JUST IN: Last three years Macintosh and iPhone keyboards contaminated with herpes virus" "Bill Gates on early lists for sainthood for charity work" All followed up with bit.ly redirects to Get The Facts. Good Lord, that verges on parody. We need a competition to come up with the best Microsoft shill tweet, e.g.

“I heard Hitler got IBM to do the death camps’ paperwork using an early version of Linux”
“STUDIES JUST IN: Last three years Macintosh and iPhone keyboards contaminated with herpes virus”
“Bill Gates on early lists for sainthood for charity work”

All followed up with bit.ly redirects to Get The Facts.

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