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by spocko on Fri Oct 29, 2004 at 09:21:32 AM PDT

Now if I were an open source PR person who wanted to tweak Microsoft's findings and didn't want to pay a lab to do the testing (and also because the lab is afraid to test without Microsoft's permission). I would just send out a release calling Microsoft a coward. That's right; Microsoft's a big fat corporate Chicken. Buck, buck, buck Bu GACK!

Most reporters have no idea Microsoft is so afraid of being compaired to other products that they kill the competition before it even starts.

"Hey Microsoft! What are you afraid of? A little healthy competition? Not allowing people to run benchmarks of your products is the sign of a company that doesn't trust the power of its products. They have to fix the race before it even starts!"

I've been watching and reading a lot of election coverage. This kind of story will get picked up. Microsoft will have to spend a bit of time running around and explaining why what they are doing is 1) Perfectly legal and 2) Not designed to thwart competition, but simply to blah blah blah.

The point is they would be on the defensive. They would have to show the world just what a cowardly company they are. It isn't good enough to have a monopoly; they also want an Unfair advantage when it comes to testing their product. Chickens.
Spocko. Author of www.spockosbrain.com the blog that is sweeping the nation! Now with 19 readers!



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