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●● AMD Sends Phoronix Lots of Very Expensive Gifts, Microsoft Gives Phoronix Free Access, Phoronix Writes Azure/AMD Puff Pieces

Posted in Deception, Hardware, Marketing, Microsoft at 1:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Related/context: Techrights Statement on Phoronix

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Last year: Each of these processors costs about $10,000.

Image: Phoronix comment

Why brag about it?

Just now:

Image: Phoronix's AMD Microsoft benchmark

Image: Phoronix's AMD Microsoft benchmark: Phoronix thanksing Microsoft This was on the last page (page 5).

Image: The way it's written makes the article sound like a puff piece for Azure. Are you sure you're not getting paid by AMD and/or Microsoft for this? If so it should be disclosed somewhere in the article. But AMD, Microsoft’s Pluton partner, sends loads of gifts, so this question could be asked better.

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This is also days ago:

Image: CBL Phoronix How many people or companies except Microsoft even bother with this thing? This is only promoted by Microsoft sites, ramming down our throats the “Microsoft loves Linux” narrative

Summary: Not for the first time [1, 2], Phoronix is running something akin to Azure ‘ads’ and there are other Microsoft puff pieces

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