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...people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going to rise in the east tomorrow, and someone would object just because it's Microsoft saying it (and probably claim it was an "M$" plot against FOSS somehow).

So to answer your title question: for certain people, yes.

Carl Rapson
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Long ago...  rapson | 09/11/09
See my message regarding U.S. Law for publically-traded companies  dissention | 09/11/09
Analogy FAIL  tikigawd | 09/11/09
I actually own this. ;P  dissention | 09/11/09
Sweet! I own these  tikigawd | 09/14/09
RE:Long ago...  richdave | 09/11/09
Talking about the men...  rapson | 09/14/09
Also, how could MS be trusted  T1Oracle | 09/11/09
T1Oracle n/t  dissention | 09/11/09
Where are the limits of competition?  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 09/12/09
M$ should be called out as a phony philathropist  Linux Geek | 09/11/09
good call  dissention | 09/11/09
"Full disclosure"?  dissention | 09/11/09
Not on these blogs  bmonsterman | 09/11/09
I tend to agree  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 09/12/09
point of order  dissention | 09/11/09
I didn't know that  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 09/12/09
Stick to the point - leave the political slant out  Keeping Current | 09/11/09
Ask Saul Alinsky  jabailo1 | 09/11/09
Win7 Source  dissention | 09/11/09
M$??? Really?  Fark | 09/11/09
They ripped XP's theme from early KDE 3  bendib | 09/11/09
Oooh, a Saul Alinsky sighting  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 09/12/09
It's funny, the GNU and FSF community ...  mwagner@... | 09/11/09
They will always be seen a astromaneur.  bendib | 09/11/09
Harry Reid: "We lost the war"  Speednet | 09/11/09
The "Fact Checkers" were the liars  DanaBlankenhorn ZDNet Moderator | 09/12/09
WRONG  hiraghm@... | 09/12/09
Big Brother and his cronies are the liars  hiraghm@... | 09/12/09
The Interesting Analogy  hiraghm@... | 09/12/09
Actually the Analogy is rather apt  hiraghm@... | 09/12/09
You open source guys must really like  mustangj36@... | 09/12/09
RE: Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?  JWBeall | 09/14/09
RE: Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?  drprod@... | 09/14/09
Wait and see ...  orionds | 09/15/09

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