Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft

D4C5CE writes "Microsoft's ceaseless "success" in bringing instability, insecurity and breaches of privacy as well as a deplorable lack of open standards to almost Every Desktop on Earth has now earned them an "Oscar" for Data Leeches, the Lifetime Award for "outstanding mis-achievement" from the BigBrotherAwards 2002 in Germany. Microsoft's Data Protection Officer actually attended the ceremony to collect the prize (probably delighted that unlike the "laureates" of last year's event in Austria, at least he would not receive live cockroaches), and this unlucky winner took the opportunity to make some critical remarks on the company's communications regarding the Windows Media Player and Digital Restrictions (or, euphemistically, in his words: Rights) Management technologies which he deemed crucial for modern business models, rather than acknowledging that it's in fact not just the advertising but the approach itself which is fundamentally flawed."

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Re:what a balanced and fair summary

[RobotRunAmok]

Try this one: "The sound of one hand clapping." ...which is exactly what you'll hear here if the editors continue to pander to the juvenile knee-jerk dead-horse-pummeling which is its unthinking MS-bashing. Christ, the way it's done half the time, it's got to be a turn-off for even some of the real Linux-o-philes

Try this:

"OKAY, I *Get* it, you're EVIL!" -- Buffy Summers.