Comments on: Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?

By: Jo Shields

Jo Shields — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:15:52 +0000

Sam isn’t a journalist, he’s a low-rent blogger trying to emulate the style of The Register – badly.

However, be careful about criticizing his work, you don’t have long left to apologise before he pulls the racism card on you.

By: Nobody is Born a Microsoft Employee | Boycott Novell

Nobody is Born a Microsoft Employee | Boycott Novell — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:47:38 +0000

[...] Lord complains about Sam Varghese misrepresenting his views: Sam, your article paints me with a brush 22which I [...]

By: Daniel h

Daniel h — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:04:56 +0000

Standard Microsoft way of dealing with any and all criticism really. If you have anything to complain about them you’re a Microsoft hater and as such your points are not valid anymore, no matter how relevant or accurate they may be in themselves.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:31:32 +0000

There is an error in your title – it contains an entirely superfluous question mark.

(‘Sam Varghese Got It Wrong’ is up there with ‘Dog Bites Man’ in the realm of the non-story. There’s an unofficial club of those who have been magnificently inaccurately attacked by Sam, in fact. We’re thinking of getting t-shirts printed…)

By: Alex Combas

Alex Combas — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:24:29 +0000

As John Stewart would say: "Im not saying your mother's a whore, I'm just asking: is your mother turning into a whore?" Some people will find getting asked that question to be very insulting, I'm sure you can see why. I've actually written about the changing Ubuntu in my blog recently on Feb 12th, and a while back on Jan 16th. I'm sure that the Microsoft Office team (Microsofts biggest money earner) is happy that Open Office will no longer be installed by default in the most popular Linux distribution, new Linux users who have never heard of Open Office and just want to give something different a try will be more likely than ever to go back to windows. Same thing goes with Adobe being glad that Gimp is no longer installed be default. And lets not mention that if Yahoo (who is now owned my Microsoft, and uses Bing on the back-end) is willing to pay Ubuntu to use their search engine it must be because they stand to make more money from the deal than they are paying to Ubuntu, so yes Ubuntu makes some money but they are giving their direct competitor (Microsoft) MORE money, not a very bright idea.