The Mono trap uses disinformation to spread itself, leading to more dissatisfied users
Read more »Rally to Put More Mono in Ubuntu Backfires, Users Left Concerned by Mono
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Disinformation Disinfected, pt. 3: Banshee in Ubuntu
Here, let’s take a look at one of the main things that get’s me going about mono-supporters. There is a strong push to get Banshee in as the default media player in Ubuntu. Here’s my take on that.
Read more »When Microsoft AstroTurfers Are Masquerading as GNU/Linux Users
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Does Microsoft Create Security FUD Against Rivals?
Microsoft invents a ‘fix’ for some bogus security bug and ‘Independent Security Evaluator’ heaps praise on Microsoft and talks up the ‘vulnerability’ in Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.
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Top Microsoft strategist highlights a change in IP policy
Phelps portrays Microsoft as desperately striving to adapt to a new world of aggressive enforcement of intellectual property (IP), but ends up suggesting a rising IP hegemon eager to shape a new world of such enforcement. It's not pretty.
Read more »Microsoft Unleashes the Gartner Group to Sabotage Migration to GNU/Linux in Europe
Microsoft's brigadier Michael Silver helps foil Europe's migration to GNU/Linux, using lies
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Analysts Cartel: Gartner is Fan of MS Software Patents, Anti-Linux Lenovo Analyst is a Vista Man
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.” - Microsoft, internal document [PDF]. A look at the proximity between GNU/Linux-hostile analysts and the company which feeds them
Read more »A Few Facts As Antidote Against Microsoft's anti-ODF FUD Campaign
The best antidote against FUD is facts. FUD only works when people don't know any better. So, given some recent anti-ODF FUD in the air, I thought it would be useful to provide some facts.
Read more »Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
Microsoft brings the most familiar shills to assist with spin and disinformation; it also wants Rob Weir out
Read more »Why Did CNET Remove Microsoft’s Attack on Open Source?
Microsoft’s Latest Lie Attack Against GNU/Linux and ODF
A FEW DAYS ago, evidence was used to show that Microsoft strives to marginalise 'dissent' such as GNU/Linux. The GPL, unlike anything Apple would ever adapt to, is too disruptive for Microsoft's business to tolerate. There is a perceptual level at which GNU/Linux can be suppressed, by creating the illusion that GNU/Linux is scarcely adopted and then working hard to make it so.
Read more »Microsoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon
How Microsoft is trying to marginalise GNU/Linux and the extent to which demoralising lies are used as a tool
Read more »Microsoft’s Profits Down Sharply, Microsoft’s FUD Up Sharply
Reaffirmation of Microsoft's problems comes from its sympathisers; Microsoft FUD ensues
Read more »IBM Does Not Support OOXML
Response to new disinformation from the Microsoft camp. Microsoft cheerleaders like Alex Brown and Jesper Lund Stocholm are quite deliberately misinterpreting or mis-presenting a vote related to OOXML by claiming that IBM "supports" OOXML.
Read more »Latest FUD Attack on GNU/Linux-powered Sub-notebooks Comes from Microsoft-influenced Lenovo
Microsoft's offensive against GNU/Linux on sub-notebooks gains a familiar ally
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