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SOP for Microsoft ...

Microsoft has been doing this for years undermining standards boards and running roughshod over anyone or anything that is a threat to the Microsoft empire:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958

How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style

A stacked panel, on the other hand, is like a stacked deck: it is packed with people who, on the face of things, should be neutral, but who are in fact strong supporters of our technology. The key to stacking a panel is being able to choose the moderator. Most conference organizers allow the moderator to select the panel, so if you can pick the moderator, you win. Since you can't expect representatives of our competitors to speak on your behalf, you have to get the moderator to agree to having only "independent ISVs" on the panel. No one from Microsoft or any other formal backer of the competing technologies would be allowed ? just ISVs who have to use this stuff in the "real world." Sounds marvelously independent doesn't it? In fact, it allows us to stack the panel with ISVs that back our cause. Thus, the "independent" panel ends up telling the audience that our technology beats the others hands down. Get the press to cover this panel, and you've got a major win on your hands.

Read the Effective Evangelism portions of exhibit 3096 of the Comes v. Microsoft litigation which can be downloaded here:

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf

Check out the PPT portion of the PDF. Nice, isn't it? The contempt Microsoft has for developers is disgusting. And people still want to code on this platform?

No need for No_Ax_to_Grind to read the PDF since he's probable seen the presentation first hand.

Posted by: MisterMiester   Posted on: 02/22/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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