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- From: soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn)
- Subject: Re: microsoft employees
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.063509.12369@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul21.2712.2729@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:35:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.2712.2729@dosgate> "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes:
- >
- >Exactly what net do you think you're on? This is USENET, Min. Despite
- >the number of government employees and sites you see, this is NOT a
- >government funded net. Your university is, but Usenet is a bit more than
- >a plaything for universities.
-
- This sounds as if there is not rule of fairness governing news posting on the
- USENET. I sincerely hope it is not. USENET may be more than the plaything
- for universities but still USENET news is routed to the Internet and read
- by lots of people on the Internet. Well, when you post to the USENET, if you
- think you can really reach out to people only on the part of the net where
- people shell out their own money to subscribe, then your logic holds good.
- But I do not think neither you nor microsoft employees do not know that
- your/their posts are fed into Internet, reaching out many people the moeny
- they pay for the UUNET cannot reach. More complex than you ever imagined, huh?
-
- >Ah, it was "at the expense of Borland". Presumably Borland has some
- >favoured status so that their products can be discussed on the net, but
- >not Microsoft's? Wrong. Anybody can post anything, anytime. The only
- >restriction (by either convention or moderator) is that the post should
- >be relevant to the group in question. A comment on the pricing of a
- >C/C++ compiler in a comp.os.* newsgroup is certainly relevant.
-
- Well, you should have read my subsquent post regarding this point. I am not
- a Borland employee and so when I talk about Borland software I talk about it
- as a customer not as a Borland employee. No, I have never ever even implied
- that Borland has any favored status. You don't follow my logic/rationale
- very well. MS and Borland are competitors, especially in language market.
- When a MS employee posted a news that says their c compiler can be had
- for less **in the context** when people were talking about Borland c
- compiler, it doesn't sound innocent. It sounded as if the MS employee was
- either desperate or out of sense. Remeber, I clearly stated that I do
- not object to MS employees posting news to any group as long as they do not
- promote their products and demote their competitors'. I still think
- it is shameful if MS employess do these two things on the net.
-
-
- >So it's acceptable that people badmouth MS, saying that they can't write
- >code, but you don't think that MSers should be able to respond by asking
- >what people consider good code? I followed the thread in question, Min.
- >Nobody from Microsoft published anything out of line (at least that I
- >saw).
-
- As a user, you can express your anger/dissatisfaction to a particular vendor
- or software developer. As a user of a IBM product, MS employees can discuss
- down sides of the IBM software they are using. But given that these two
- companies are competitors in os/2 and windows 3.1 war, I think posters
- from these two sites should follow a minimum net rule of fairness and
- decency. Their (IBM employees as well as MS employees) posts that conveys
- distinctly negative messages against their competitors' product do not
- sound a fair use of the public forum. I hope this clears the misunderstanding
- you might have of my post.
-
- >You're right. People should only use the net to ***demote*** their own
- >companies and themselves. Like you're doing.
-
- Well, I really think you should have read my post a little bit more closely
- before you switch to a not-so-elegant flame mode. I do not appreciate it
- at all.
-
- >Speaking as someone who just spent two years at IBM: yes. Constantly.
- >You want their names? If I were an IBMer, I'd be one of them.
-
- Nope. I am not even a professional programmer. I have never been employed
- by an software publishing house, and I even started to use os/2 a couple of
- months ago. But seriously count the number of posts from any of the IBM
- sites and compare it to the number of posts from microsoft.com. I didn't
- even started this thread. People seriously think MS employees go sometimes
- over the board to the point of abusing the net. That's why there were
- several posts that questioned whether MS employees were "ethical" in their
- use of the net. Also I want to remind you of the thread that was running
- a couple of months ago that also questioned whether MS employees were abusing
- the net. ***This (that is, MS employees _appear_ to abuse the net.) is not
- my own perception. This perception is shared by my people on the net.****
-
- >
- >MS> Also have you seen
- >MS>many people other than microsoft employees defending windows?
- >
- >Constantly. I *am* one of them.
-
- You are only the second person. The first person said that he/she was
- defending windows only occasionally. On the other hand, there are three or
- so MS employees who post news almost everyday (except for weekends, of course
- :-)) that defend windows or promote (no this is not a loaded term) NT on
- the net. Count the number of people who jump in, for example, in this thread,
- who are not from any of the ibm sites. That is a very strinking contrast.
-
- >
- >Min, I hope you don't take this as a flame.
-
- Nope. I don't, but as I said above, you should respond when you think
- you at least minimally digested what the original poster wanted to say.
-
- > It isn't intended as such.
- >But I think you should learn a LOT more about Usenet
-
- See above. This was not really abut USENET. Actually, when it comes
- to USENET, I did my homework and fairly competent how it works and what
- should be minimum etiquette to observe. For example, I don't think it is
- highly recommended that you use .sig file as yours. It will just waste
- bandwidth for no advantage to the multitude.
-
- >and the behaviour
- >of newsgroups before you start casting the type of aspersions you've
- >been saying here.
-
- I don't remember I cast apsersions to anybody on the net. I was making
- my point. I am truly sorry that you have only the level of understanding
- you have about other's posts.
-
- >
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