The Mono trap uses disinformation to spread itself, leading to more dissatisfied users

Effective AstroTurfing and why it is done .

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.

“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

Microsoft brings the most familiar shills to assist with spin and disinformation; it also wants Rob Weir out

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.

Reaffirmation of Microsoft's problems comes from its sympathisers; Microsoft FUD ensues

Microsoft's offensive against GNU/Linux on sub-notebooks gains a familiar ally