Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 03:06:20 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Cynic" <cynic@mail.cz>, "Bill Moran" <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: OT: Ethics and nature (was Re: Justification for using FreeBSD) Message-ID: <003001c0f582$d37b4a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615063952.03f5dba0@mail.cz>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cynic >Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:02 PM >To: Bill Moran >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: OT: Ethics and nature (was Re: Justification for using >FreeBSD) > > >At 06:08 15.6. 2001, Bill Moran wrote the following: >-------------------------------------------------------------- >They don't fear some freedom >or anything that esoteric. They fear they'll earn less money. All this is Uh, no. They don't FEAR that they'll earn less money. They KNOW that they ARE earning less money RIGHT NOW as a result of Open Source. Microsoft would never have started fighting against Open Source if they didn't have research results that confirmed a loss in revenue attributable to Open Source. They aren't going to admit this publically, of course, but they are quite obviously there. >One thing about this _is_ important, though. The more bashing MS recieves >from the OS crowd, the less the OS crowd (and its produts) look mature >in the eyes of businesses they're competing for. > This is a myth. Turn this around and say the more bashing that OS receives from MS, the less the MS crowd (and it's products) look mature in the eyes of businesses they're competing for. Since MS is bashing OS, then by this logic businesses must be leaving them in droves because of how immature they look. Yeah, right. In short, what you have here is a stalemate. There's something else you should consider too. The Linux community is really who started the public MS bashing of MS products. Obviously, this didn't harm Linux, and in reality it helped them so much that Microsoft finally saw so much profit loss that they started reacting back. If remaining aloof from bashing ever helped anyone, then politicians would never engage in mudslinging, and Microsoft would never have started bashing OS. Negative advertising, (ie: bashing) has been shown to work as long as it doesen't "cross the line". It may not work as well as positive advertising, but it does work. And, it's also superior to use to leverage news organizations to do your advertising for you. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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