[wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work
Jonathan Harker
jharker at massey.ac.nz
Tue Dec 3 15:15:37 NZDT 2002
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 2:40 pm, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> IDC: Windows cheaper than Linux in some scenarios
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/02/021202hnlinuxcosts.xml?s=
>I DGNS
Quote: "IDC's findings, published Monday in a study commissioned by Microsoft
Corp., suggest..."
1. The study is commissioned by Microsoft, which means it will inevitably put
them in good light. Like drug companies who commission studies of the
effectiveness of their new pills.
2. They use the word "suggest", not "show" or "prove". A very evasive word,
"suggest".
3. It is based on interviews, no hard numbers in sight.
Typical marketing dept. smokescreening nonsense! :-)
--
Jonathan Harker
MUSAC
Massey University
http://www.massey.ac.nz/
Mater artium necessitas.
[Necessity is the mother of invention].
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