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● 01.23.08

●● Bruce Byfield at it Again with “Conspiracy Theorists”

Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 10:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux… they should do a delicate dance”

–Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief

Bruce Byfield is at it again, describing realists as “Microsoft Haters” (yes, both capitalised).

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However, given that very few of them voice objections to near-monopolists like Adobe or other large proprietary companies like Apple, most Microsoft Haters apparently assume their stance largely as a rebellion. They seem to take their identity from their opposition. And, in extreme cases, could be described as conspiracy theorists, seeing Microsoft cabals in everything.

This is becoming rather tedious and unnecessary. That famous sculpture (or picture) of three monkeys comes to mind here. Having shown plenty of concrete evidence of crime, Bruce apprently wants everyone to just look away and ignore it.

=> becoming rather tedious

“Leave them alone. There’s nothing to see here“.

It’s important enough for him that we ignore Microsoft’s technical and contractual sabotage that he actually writes about it. That’s just the core of this gripe. If he does not want to be part of the blunt debate, then he can stay out of it. Why resort to using labels and stereotypes? █

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