Embrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODF
May 08, 2009, 18:03 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Roy Schestowitz)
[ Thanks to Jose_X
for this link. ]
"Microsoft already brings out the shills from the
Burton Group, whom it paid handsomely to attack ODF in the form of
several jobs (full-time wages) and contracts. Wake up and smell the
coffee. It's no coffee, it's AstroTurfing in suits. Or as Microsoft
calls this:
""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.""
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