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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Posted by: Olavi Petri (Sunday 9 October 2005, 10:57 AM)
Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologists, astroturfers, shills and other trouble makers. They often go like this:
"why do you hate MS?"
"you know nothing about business"
"because of people like you ..."
"{non-MS product} is shit"
etc.
There are many more variations, but they common theme in all is a personal attack and an attempt to steer the dialog into a debate of opinions rather than facts or just plain drag it down into other non-productive activities like mud sling and name calling.
All I can say is great work Ingrid. The article and the quotes from Mark Taylor must have really hit a nerve in order to invoke such personal attacks from the MS camp.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
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Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous -
OpenOffice does have an export as PDF functio... Anugraha -
It just floors me how many folks line up in s... Steve Thompson
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What's the population of Massachusetts? Isn't it m... Tomas Marek
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There is a very good text about it here:
http://ww... Anonymous
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Can you imagine any other industry where if s... Richard
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Microsoft is gambling that they can brea... Dan Clayton -
Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
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Quote:
"The problem is, in its search for a p... Neal Schulz
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"The problem is, in its search for a phi... Matt -
Re Matt: Netscape nearly did harm Microsoft.... Richard
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Most people seem to either hate them or... Anonymous
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Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
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The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily r... Paul Vincent
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Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It'... Microsoft Office Fan
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> Why do you hate Microsoft Office so mu... Rodd Clarkson
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Personally, I've been using OOo for... Mitch 74
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS includ... Anonymous
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS... Flash
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem wi... Rodd Clarkson
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ODF is _not_ "quite new", it is based on StarOffic... Anonymous
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Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologis... Olavi Petri -
I disagree. MS Office is used so extensively that... Anonymous
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"MS Office is used so extensively that .doc i... Sean Jodrey
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Do people really believe in 5 years time... Jon
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>There is no more chance of people... Anonymous
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Point is people dont really ca... Jon
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Re: "Do people really believe... Richard
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Now I would not go as far as saying... Clifford
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Standards are not meant to be static. T... Anonymous
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makes sense
i understand your point... Scott W
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That's ho... JJ
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Ejaculate on Microsoft! Testy Testerton
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Standards are meant to be fully backward compatibl... Arthur B.
