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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:16:38 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, "Phil Regnauld" <regnauld@ftf.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Marketing vs. technical superiority (was: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit")
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In-Reply-To: <001101bf3463$470d8be0$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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At 12:59 PM 11/21/1999 -0800, David Schwartz wrote:

>         Do you have any evidence to support the claim that Liebowitz and Margolis
>distorted their results in any way? 

Read them. Their writings don't just toe the Microsoft party line; they make
patently ridiculous statements so as to do so.

What's more, the authors are paid handsomely by Microsoft, and flown all over
the country, to present Microsoft's corporate PR party line.

Liebowitz, who works at UT Austin, has even instituted courses on subjects
such as Web page design which INTENTIONALLY EXCLUDE information on non-Microsoft
products and on cross-platform compatibility. In particular, the Web page design
course omitted Java and JavaScript, focusing instead on the use of VBScript,
ASPs, and FrontPage (which is designed to format content so that it cannot
be displayed properly by other browsers.

He even placed Microsoft advertisements on University-funded Web pages.

In short, he's a Microsoft PR flack -- just as you appear to be.

--Brett GLass



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