Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

lk (lk@ns1.Aniela.EU.ORG)
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:47:48 +0300 (EEST)


Speaking of:
A TV station in my country said that the most pirated products belong to
M$ because computers cannot work wothout the GUI M$ windows provides.

In my country about 75% percent of M$ software are illegal copies :)

> > I suppose they received some pression from M$, but if people read of a FUD
> > from a M$ employed, then they can guess what is going on, if it is a
> > newspaper usually telling facts in a correct way...
>
> It is common for newspaper staff to be corrupt, same with magazine people.
> Sometimes because people generally believe in a cause and are not impartial
> (which I've seen both pro and anti Linux btw) and sometimes because advertising
> revenue is a good thing.
>
> > The situation is going to be sad
>
> There is a saying in he UK 'You can fool all of the people some of the time,
> you can fool some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the
> people all of the time'. You only have to look at the incredibly dim view
> technical people take of most printed reviews to see that.
>
> Alan
>
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