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● 10.15.08

●● Microsoft Mouths in the Press: Michael Gartenberg

Posted in FUD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, OpenOffice, Windows at 9:05 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

‘Analyst hat’ for attacks on GNU/Linux

There are some harsh words for GNU/Linux in this new IDG article. [rel="nofollow"]

=> ↺ this new IDG article

Is IDG, whose parent company does a lot of business with Microsoft, badmouthing GNU/Linux? Well, not so fast! It’s more likely to do with the writers among their ranks. As we mentioned before [1, 2, 3, 4], Michael Gartenberg is a former Microsoft employee (evangelist even). This is not the first time that he bashes GNU/Linux in the press and there are similar examples of Microsoft-oriented ‘analysts’ or former employees who do this.

=> parent company does a lot of business with Microsoft | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ↺ a former Microsoft employee | ↺ not the first time that he bashes GNU/Linux in the press

In other FUD sightseeing, yesterday we wrote about an article from Ars Technica, which Preston Gralla is echoing now. Some readers described him as a “shill”, but we don’t subscribe to this assessment based on his long posting/publishing history. Either way, he chose the provocative headline “Is version 3.0 the last great version for OpenOffice.org?” He is citing only a blog from which the badmouthing came (a Novell employee). Thank you, Novell, for fueling OpenOffice.org FUD. █

=> an article from Ars Technica | ↺ “Is version 3.0 the last great version for OpenOffice.org?” | fueling OpenOffice.org FUD

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