More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie

Cally writes "Further embarrasingly lame FUD from Craig Mundie of Microsoft. This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take. Looks like he's really talking to legislators there ... He also knocks the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Passport SSO service as 'this notion that the world should be offered an alternative.' An alternative?"

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Time to go over Mundie's head

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's face it, so long as Mundie's got a job with ZDNet he's going to keep putting out this crap. All of our complaining about him or sending him emails or whatnot won't count for anything.

What we need is a concerted effort to get ZDNet to deal with him. This means making incessant (but reasonable) complaints to ZDNet's editorial and PR department. It also means going to advertisers and asking them why they choose to sponsor his sort of crap. It even means going to the competitors of ZDNet and thanking them for not pushing the sort of crap that Mundie and ZDNet does -- that sort of positive reinforcement might lead to them using their editorial heft to present counter-arguments, which can't be dismissed so easily.

Mundie's the worst sort of columnist. He'll present dumb opinions and then trash the responses that quite rightly correct him. The backlash he might face over the GPL he'll dismiss as Linux zealoutry. So forget about him. Start going to his boss.

Microsoft doesn't pay taxes.

[BeBoxer]

It's quite disingenous for Mundie to state that government tax revenues would fall since Microsoft doesn't pay any taxes!. Since I personally do more to support the government tax coffers than all of Microsoft, he can just sit down and shut up.

I wonder if Craig Mundie personally pays any income tax? Or if he is able to find enough loopholes to skip out on his obligations just like his employer.

Gandhi's four steps to victory.

[TheFrood]

Can't remember who posted this first, and I don't remember the exact phrasing, but Gandhi's four steps to victory are as follows:

First, they ignore you.
Then, they laugh at you.
Then, they fight you.
Then, you win.

Looks like open-source has made it to step three. Come on, Gandhi, don't fail us now.

TheFrood