Re: [tdf-discuss] MS Office 2010 FUD

On 16/10/10 20:41, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 17:26:10 PM +0100, Zaphod Feeblejocks (zaphodfj@gmail.com) wrote:
>    
> > Greetings, friends.
> >
> > Have a look at:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0MM5sZbUc&feature=player_embedded
> >
> > Looks like Microsoft are getting scared - why else would they go to the
> > hassle of FUDding OOo?
> >      
> Zaphod,
>
> that one is not a meeting about MS Office or OOo. Is a video about
> drug addiction and should be considered as such. See how and why at
>
> http://stop.zona-m.net/digiworld/microsoft-video-proves-microsoft-office-cocaine-and-has-dealers-inside-schools
>
>         Marco
>
>    


Marco

The inner addictive substance procurement and dissemination courtesy of 
M$ is a matter of debate, but the essence of their video is that M$ sets 
the stage and others are invited to come and play.  Given that due to 
their lucrative PC-retailer agreements, M$ might be forgiven for 
thinking that their's is the only show in town.

But this video attacks OSS as well as OOo specifically, and as such 
falls under the general FUD tactic that M$ has been perpetrating for 
years against GNU/Linux and, to a lesser degree, *BSD.  Basically, goes 
the mythology, if one doesn't use M$ one's computer using experience is 
compromised and inferior.

At no point will M$ ever spark up and admit that its code-base is not 
only buggy but inherently insecure, that its products are astonishingly 
over-priced and poorly supported, that it traps users into a lock-down 
system of compulsory upgrades under the superficial guise of 
"improvements", that it externalises all of its own failings onto third 
party developers who have to find creative ways of working within the 
stranglehold of M$ API policies.  No wonder any M$installation 
neccessitates any number of ancillary CDs of drivers, licensing for 
third party vendors and the like.

Anytime I have ever had to install a M$ system, I am reminded of the 
bliss and sense of liberation I experience when installing a GNU/Linux 
or a *BSD system.  How straight forward it all is, and how easy, 
relative to the alleged M$ standard.

I don't mean this to be a rant, and yet feel compelled to just pick up 
on the idea of addiction - it is rather more like a hostage situation 
than an addiction ... it is some Redmond prick with a gun at your head 
than a line of white powder at the end of a rolled up dollar bill.

AG

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