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The Company Everyone Loves To Hate
In honor of Microsoft's 30th year, Epeeist writes "The BBC is running a Have Your Say article on Microsoft at 30." From that article: "Microsoft will always adapt and buy into other areas to keep themselves at the top. They're the company everyone loves to hate." While they're reflecting, most people are focusing on the now. teslatug writes "Brian Jones, a Microsoft PM on the Office team, has just confirmed that the new default XML format of Office 12 is not compatible with the GPL. Brian believes that LGPL may be compatible, but others have raised issues about the ability to redistribute." Relatedly, shades66 writes "Microsoft's Alan Yates tripped over his own words in responding to the Massachusetts Information Technology Division's late-August declaration for OpenDocument and other open software standards." For some more colourful commentary, smooth wombat writes "John Dvorak has written an article for MarketWatch in which he postulates that the reorganization by Microsoft is actually a prelude to its breakup into three separate entities."
Quick precis of the above post:
How dare those limeys not hold the same opinions as me?
They must be ignorant.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Like it or not, left-leaning news outfits (such as the Beeb) often provide far more accurate and truthful reporting than the ultra-neoconservative outfits (ie. FOX News) or even the right-leaning programs (eg. CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, etc.). That said, they still do have their conflicts of interest. However, their programming is usually far more intelligent than that of the corporate news media.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
I didn't say ignorant...I just meant to express my frustration at the general lack of understanding of the history of Microsoft and the implications that lack of understanding brings.
From the dictionary...
ignorant
adj.
1. Lacking education or knowledge.
2. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake.
3. Unaware or uninformed.
So while you might not have said the word "ignorant", you certainly implied it. To say otherwise is to refute the very definition of the word "ignorant".