They didn't tell me why Python is better than Visual BASIC for example. No evidence was given and no examples. Some help they offered. Not even one Python book recommendation or even a Python web site. Like I said, sociopaths, you too.
I asked legitimate questions. I stated that Mono 1.2 helps me in my situation to develop Linux applications. Then I get FUD thrown at me by you and your "friends" as well as personal attacks and other fallacies. I get told that "Visual BASIC sucks, use Python instead" and now that "Sun and Microsoft do not help developers like you because their online resources and books they publish are not as good as the works written by flamelords of whom you now are in communication with."
Don't be stupid of course I get better help from Sun and Microsoft than flamelords and trolls like you. Microsoft has MSDN online for free and other free online resources and Visual BASIC.Net 2005 Express edition for free, and Sun has SDKs and online documentation for free. Admit it, you are just following the rules of open source programming in trying to discourage people from learning open source technology for your own job security.
That is ok, I know you are not a mind reader and had no idea that I didn't have a lot of free time to learn a new language. I am a Jamaican and I work three jobs mon, four if you count the part-time job I have at the help desk.
I know that most open source programmers here are really following the rules of open source programming and the rules say to discourage people from learning open source technology for "job security", etc.
The technology is old because I tried to learn it when it was new.
You missed my point in that the open source community is not very helpful and would rather be sociopaths to new people trying to learn the technologies rather than help them out. Notice how instead of trying to help me learn, you use personal attacks on me instead. Nice job, really nice, you'll have everyone on the planet running Linux and programming Python and Java with that attitude. Just like PopCopy from the first episode of Dave Chappelle's show, drive away the customers with a negative attitude and behavior.
If only the open source community had helped me in 1995 - 2000 I would have been coding in Java or Python by now. But they aren't helpful at all, and they write manuals like they are high on crack or pot, and the manuals make no logical sense, and yet they tell people to RTFM anyway. Might as well be written in Klingon.
Linux Users create their own FUD as well. I just recently posted about Mono 1.2 helping me use Visual BASIC in Linux. I get hit with Linux Sociopaths telling me that Visual BASIC sucks and that I should use a real language like Java, Python, or C++ instead. That is FUD from the Linux side for you, Linux Sociopaths writing their own FUD now.
This is why open source does not catch on. The negative attitudes towards anyone different or trying to learn new things. The very things that show me I am dealing with sociopaths online that turned me away from learning open source technologies for the past decade.
I know Visual BASIC, Mono allows me to use Visual BASIC in Linux. So some open source sociopath tells me that I must learn Python because Visual BASIC sucks, so I respond in kind that me switching to Python like he uses would not be good for me economically due to the job situations. Now I got a sociopath like you calling me an idiot. Nice job, you set back the open source movement five years with your shitty attitude! People like you make me want to stay with Windows, and stay away from Linux Sociopaths like you.
But why learn Python, when I am more skilled at Visual BASIC and Visual BASIC exists now for Linux in Mono? What reason would I possibly have to take time out of my already busy schedule to learn a new language and framework, instead of using one that I already know?
Java, performance issues, and Sun suing any company that tried to have their own version of Java. Plus Java apps are really buggy in IE and Firefox.
I tried to learn Java with 1.1, and then 2.0 came out, and then Java started to release a lot of upgrades and updates.
I've actually compiled some C++ programs in Linux using gcc, stuff like modem drivers that require kernel headers that don't compile correctly without some tweaking. Other programs as well, forcing me to download the RPM tarballs because I don't know enough about the Linux kernel to make changes to those kernel header source code files. Then when I do upgrade the kernel, the programs I had before are now broken and need to be recompiled. It is not FUD, it is facts and I have experience with Linux since 1995. I would have developed in Linux already with gcc and Java, but my bad experiences with those languages has sort of scared me away from them. Plus when I went to ask for help on forums, I got called a n00b and was called a lot of bad names and flamed to death. So trying to get decent help from the Linux community, did not work out for me very well. So I went back to the basics, Visual BASIC.
Well then I hope you don't mind unemployment. Some of us like to have steady paychecks and be able to pay our bills and own a house and raise a family. I mean maybe you can code Python for food some day and some open source dotcom will take pity on you and hire you, until the public investing in them notices that they have an Underpants Gnomes Business Plan:
#1 Develop hot new technology in Python. #2 ? #3 Profit!
Then you'll all be on the street with "Willing to code Python for food" signs and living in cardboard boxes with your "Visual BASIC sucks" T-Shirts.
Because if I entered the Python market, I'd be a beginner and not be able to get a job with it until I get experience with Python. But seriously who is going to hire a Python developer with less than a year's experience anyway? I got over a decade and a half with Windows and Visual BASIC and a ton of knowledge and experience that I cannot just throw away because someone who cannot even find a job that gets paid as well as I do with Visual BASIC, is trying to tell me that Visual BASIC sucks. I mean really, you want me to give up $150,000USD a year contract jobs with Visual BASIC, just to get those $30,000USD a year jobs with Python? Now which one sucks?
Point is you already know the environment and languages you work in. I am talking about convincing people used to Windows and VB.Net to start developing on Linux that don't have your knowledge or skills. They'd get lost in Linux if they were forced to use and learn EMacs, Perl, and GCC and a brand new IDE that they don't know how to use yet. There is a learning curve there that keeps them away from Linux, and Mono helps them use an environment they are already used to using.
I want to be able to develop applications in both Windows and Linux. VS.Net and Mono allow me to use the same code with very little tweaking between platforms and keep using my Visual BASIC skills I learned over a decade ago.
Windows Forums means I don't have to rewrite part of the program that uses forms for Linux.
I hope this gets more VS.Net developers porting over to Linux using Mono. Linux can really use more easy to use and easy to develop applications without having to learn kernel hacking and methods that exist only for Linux. This is a good thing and maybe the corporations will decide to have some Linux workstations if they can develop VB.Net applications for them the same way they develop them for Windows.
the video was slander and the slander part was removed via the slander laws. It is a fallacy to say that all Republicans are gay, the odds are against that sort of thing as homosexuals do not even make up 5% of the population. It is just the sort of slander smear tactics you expect from emo liberals that control the news, media, entertainment, blogs, scoop sites, forums, Slashdot, Fark.com, and other CMS sites.
I posted about it here on Slashdot and I had my reply privileges taken away and my account on The Daily Kos was disabled so I could not do anything. I am only posting the truth about liberals, and notice their hypocrisies when they censor me and ban my accounts from being able to do anything. I'll most likely get my posting and replying privileges taken away for posting this, but at least the truth will be out there in Google for all to see.
You underestimate the Linux community. Any code that violates Microsoft's or SCO's IP have been in the process of being rewritten, and if it hasn't been rewritten yet it will be.
Yes there are other commercial versions of Linux like Red Hat Enterprise, but Fedora Core is the base of the OS using the Linux community source code. Novell can use Microsoft IP in SuSE commercial, but not in OpenSuSE which it shares code with the Linux community. Like I said, Novell is not stupid enough to release private code they don't own into the Linux community. Parts of SuSE commercial are GPLed, but not all of it, and Novell does release the GPLed version of the code under the GPL. Yes some GPLed code was released from GPL, and the programmers in the community that wrote it most likely got paid a fee. That is but one of the ways to make money off of GPL code, get paid to release it into a commercial license.
What Microsoft most likely wants is for Novell to write a Linux subsystem for Vista or at least have SuSE Linux run in Vista under a virtual machine (ala Virtual PC), so Vista users can have the best of Windows and Linux in one system. Microsoft once did this before with a POSIX and OS/2 subsystems in Windows NT 3.1 to run Unix POSIX and OS/2 applications. I think you overlooked that. If Microsoft can keep their OS as the main OS, and still run Linux programs under it, they figure that there is no need for people to reformat and reinstall with Linux in place of Vista. Only in order to do that, they need to work out some sort of deal with Novell, which they are doing.
I am guessing that the Linux subsystem will be added with SP1 or SP2 of Vista.
Remember when Microsoft gave Apple $3XXM, and the Mac Vs. Windows lawsuits were settled? Chances are that Microsoft is now doing the same with Novell, and Novell still owns some patents for Unix that it did not sell to SCO, and Novell was a major player in the IBM vs. SCO lawsuit. Microsoft is just trying to CYA itself, because obviously Vista infringes on some Unix/Linux patents. This is just a way of Microsoft saying to Novell, we'll give you some money to save your company, like we did to Apple, if you promise not to sue us.
I wonder if there will be a SuSE version of MS-Office, like the OSX version of MS-Office created out of the Microsoft-Apple deal?
Novel is not stupid enough to share Microsoft IP with other Linux companies, via Linux source code releases. Quit saying that they are, you ignorant emo whiner!
Novel can pay to release the Linux source code to a different license and then do the same thing with SuSe that Apple does with OSX being based on *BSD Unix, but still keep some code private. Then Novel can do what Apple does, and have open source as well as private code that is IP protected. Xandros and Linspire paid to release Linux code from GPL to another license in order to protect some of their code as IP and has a mixed free software and proprietary software license, which any idiot can tell you that Novel would do the same thing. If you bothered to do any research, instead of going on an Anti-Microsoft rant you'd know that. Instead you think with your emotions, and not with logic and reason like me and many others who know a heck of a lot more about the subject than you apparently do. Grow up child, adults are talking here.
is Microsoft sharing Visual Studio.Net source code with Novel to make a better version of Mono. Maybe they can add in.Net 3.0 framework features? Sharpdevelop and Monodevelop are good IDEs, but could be enhanced with help from Microsoft.
Linux would then gain good development tools to get Windows developers to start developing for Linux using the same languages they use for Windows. If Microsoft does not do that, it could shut out a lot of Windows developers who don't want to learn a new language and want the same IDE and language that they use in Windows.
That didn't stop Linspire and Xandros who both compete with Novel SuSe and try to bring Windows like functionality to Linux for a fee.
It will be a mixed source, the GPL code will be given away royalty free, but the MS licensed code will most likely be not given away. OpenSuSe won't have MS Licensed code, but SuSe Professional will, which is sold anyway. Parts of SuSe Professional source code that are not licensed from Microsoft can be freely distributed.
When corporations look for a Linux to work with their Windows servers and workstations, SuSe Professional might fill that need now. They wouldn't mind paying $49.99 for a Linux OS, when Microsoft Windows costs more than that per license. Novel might even get Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and other OEMs to pre-install SuSe Professional Linux for corporations that want a Linux box.
use some HeadOn for your headache. Apparently you never read my profile here that says everything I post is a joke. I am found to be funny elsewhere and I exist to expose frauds like you.
Alright, now I just got a call saying that for my talk on Slashdot about the daily KOS that I will be killed if I go to vote tomorrow. You can hide behind an anonymous name, and you can even spoof caller ID, but you won't stop me from voting tomorrow even if you do try and kill me.
I can subpoena the phone company for all call records to my number, and I am sure that some of them will trace back to Democratic call centers. I have no device to record phone calls, otherwise I'd post the WAV files here.
I am a member of the Pirate Ninja party of the USA, and I will not be threatened, not even with terrorist tactics such as the above poster tried to use and hide behind an anonymous account. I only posted the truth about what kind of calls I had gotten, and the only place I submitted my personal information to for the Democrats, and I was unjustly attacked by one such Democrat claiming to have ties to the Daily Kos, which show as facts that the Democrats are using smear tactics just as the Republicans are. I am sick of those sort of tactics, and I want to lead the charge for a change in the US system of politics with the Pirate Ninja party.
I post a lot about myself on the Internet under at least the creative content license. Esp on Wiki sites and forums.
I am a member of the Pirate Ninja party and we are pushing for open source of IP and information. We want to have works created under open source licenses to have an online library of books that can easily be revised as information changes. The Pirate Ninja party is all about change and adapting to change, unlike the other parties out there.
Moderate means I have the best of both worlds, and none of the biases that liberals and conservatives have. In fact most people are moderates and only extremists are liberals and conservatives. You are only upset that I am a genius who knows how reality, economics, computers, etc work, and I use critical thinking, and you are still being spoon-fed your views and opinions by your party's leaders and you use your emotions to think with.
I submit that both Democrats and Republicans are using these tactics, both Democrats and Republicans use smear tactics. It is time for other candidates to be elected that do not use smear tactics.
Notice how the Republicans are not denying or calling this story a smear tactic, but when it is pointed out that Democrats are doing the same thing, it is called a smear tactic and denied.
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They didn't tell me why Python is better than Visual BASIC for example. No evidence was given and no examples. Some help they offered. Not even one Python book recommendation or even a Python web site. Like I said, sociopaths, you too.
I asked legitimate questions. I stated that Mono 1.2 helps me in my situation to develop Linux applications. Then I get FUD thrown at me by you and your "friends" as well as personal attacks and other fallacies. I get told that "Visual BASIC sucks, use Python instead" and now that "Sun and Microsoft do not help developers like you because their online resources and books they publish are not as good as the works written by flamelords of whom you now are in communication with."
Don't be stupid of course I get better help from Sun and Microsoft than flamelords and trolls like you. Microsoft has MSDN online for free and other free online resources and Visual BASIC.Net 2005 Express edition for free, and Sun has SDKs and online documentation for free. Admit it, you are just following the rules of open source programming in trying to discourage people from learning open source technology for your own job security.
That is ok, I know you are not a mind reader and had no idea that I didn't have a lot of free time to learn a new language. I am a Jamaican and I work three jobs mon, four if you count the part-time job I have at the help desk.
I know that most open source programmers here are really following the rules of open source programming and the rules say to discourage people from learning open source technology for "job security", etc.
The technology is old because I tried to learn it when it was new.
You missed my point in that the open source community is not very helpful and would rather be sociopaths to new people trying to learn the technologies rather than help them out. Notice how instead of trying to help me learn, you use personal attacks on me instead. Nice job, really nice, you'll have everyone on the planet running Linux and programming Python and Java with that attitude. Just like PopCopy from the first episode of Dave Chappelle's show, drive away the customers with a negative attitude and behavior.
If only the open source community had helped me in 1995 - 2000 I would have been coding in Java or Python by now. But they aren't helpful at all, and they write manuals like they are high on crack or pot, and the manuals make no logical sense, and yet they tell people to RTFM anyway. Might as well be written in Klingon.
Linux Users create their own FUD as well. I just recently posted about Mono 1.2 helping me use Visual BASIC in Linux. I get hit with Linux Sociopaths telling me that Visual BASIC sucks and that I should use a real language like Java, Python, or C++ instead. That is FUD from the Linux side for you, Linux Sociopaths writing their own FUD now.
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This is why open source does not catch on. The negative attitudes towards anyone different or trying to learn new things. The very things that show me I am dealing with sociopaths online that turned me away from learning open source technologies for the past decade.
I know Visual BASIC, Mono allows me to use Visual BASIC in Linux. So some open source sociopath tells me that I must learn Python because Visual BASIC sucks, so I respond in kind that me switching to Python like he uses would not be good for me economically due to the job situations. Now I got a sociopath like you calling me an idiot. Nice job, you set back the open source movement five years with your shitty attitude! People like you make me want to stay with Windows, and stay away from Linux Sociopaths like you.
But why learn Python, when I am more skilled at Visual BASIC and Visual BASIC exists now for Linux in Mono? What reason would I possibly have to take time out of my already busy schedule to learn a new language and framework, instead of using one that I already know?
Java, performance issues, and Sun suing any company that tried to have their own version of Java. Plus Java apps are really buggy in IE and Firefox.
I tried to learn Java with 1.1, and then 2.0 came out, and then Java started to release a lot of upgrades and updates.
I've actually compiled some C++ programs in Linux using gcc, stuff like modem drivers that require kernel headers that don't compile correctly without some tweaking. Other programs as well, forcing me to download the RPM tarballs because I don't know enough about the Linux kernel to make changes to those kernel header source code files. Then when I do upgrade the kernel, the programs I had before are now broken and need to be recompiled. It is not FUD, it is facts and I have experience with Linux since 1995. I would have developed in Linux already with gcc and Java, but my bad experiences with those languages has sort of scared me away from them. Plus when I went to ask for help on forums, I got called a n00b and was called a lot of bad names and flamed to death. So trying to get decent help from the Linux community, did not work out for me very well. So I went back to the basics, Visual BASIC.
Well then I hope you don't mind unemployment. Some of us like to have steady paychecks and be able to pay our bills and own a house and raise a family. I mean maybe you can code Python for food some day and some open source dotcom will take pity on you and hire you, until the public investing in them notices that they have an Underpants Gnomes Business Plan:
#1 Develop hot new technology in Python.
#2 ?
#3 Profit!
Then you'll all be on the street with "Willing to code Python for food" signs and living in cardboard boxes with your "Visual BASIC sucks" T-Shirts.
Because if I entered the Python market, I'd be a beginner and not be able to get a job with it until I get experience with Python. But seriously who is going to hire a Python developer with less than a year's experience anyway? I got over a decade and a half with Windows and Visual BASIC and a ton of knowledge and experience that I cannot just throw away because someone who cannot even find a job that gets paid as well as I do with Visual BASIC, is trying to tell me that Visual BASIC sucks. I mean really, you want me to give up $150,000USD a year contract jobs with Visual BASIC, just to get those $30,000USD a year jobs with Python? Now which one sucks?
Point is you already know the environment and languages you work in. I am talking about convincing people used to Windows and VB.Net to start developing on Linux that don't have your knowledge or skills. They'd get lost in Linux if they were forced to use and learn EMacs, Perl, and GCC and a brand new IDE that they don't know how to use yet. There is a learning curve there that keeps them away from Linux, and Mono helps them use an environment they are already used to using.
I want to be able to develop applications in both Windows and Linux. VS.Net and Mono allow me to use the same code with very little tweaking between platforms and keep using my Visual BASIC skills I learned over a decade ago.
Windows Forums means I don't have to rewrite part of the program that uses forms for Linux.
I hope this gets more VS.Net developers porting over to Linux using Mono. Linux can really use more easy to use and easy to develop applications without having to learn kernel hacking and methods that exist only for Linux. This is a good thing and maybe the corporations will decide to have some Linux workstations if they can develop VB.Net applications for them the same way they develop them for Windows.
the video was slander and the slander part was removed via the slander laws. It is a fallacy to say that all Republicans are gay, the odds are against that sort of thing as homosexuals do not even make up 5% of the population. It is just the sort of slander smear tactics you expect from emo liberals that control the news, media, entertainment, blogs, scoop sites, forums, Slashdot, Fark.com, and other CMS sites.
I posted about it here on Slashdot and I had my reply privileges taken away and my account on The Daily Kos was disabled so I could not do anything. I am only posting the truth about liberals, and notice their hypocrisies when they censor me and ban my accounts from being able to do anything. I'll most likely get my posting and replying privileges taken away for posting this, but at least the truth will be out there in Google for all to see.
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You underestimate the Linux community. Any code that violates Microsoft's or SCO's IP have been in the process of being rewritten, and if it hasn't been rewritten yet it will be.
Yes there are other commercial versions of Linux like Red Hat Enterprise, but Fedora Core is the base of the OS using the Linux community source code. Novell can use Microsoft IP in SuSE commercial, but not in OpenSuSE which it shares code with the Linux community. Like I said, Novell is not stupid enough to release private code they don't own into the Linux community. Parts of SuSE commercial are GPLed, but not all of it, and Novell does release the GPLed version of the code under the GPL. Yes some GPLed code was released from GPL, and the programmers in the community that wrote it most likely got paid a fee. That is but one of the ways to make money off of GPL code, get paid to release it into a commercial license.
What Microsoft most likely wants is for Novell to write a Linux subsystem for Vista or at least have SuSE Linux run in Vista under a virtual machine (ala Virtual PC), so Vista users can have the best of Windows and Linux in one system. Microsoft once did this before with a POSIX and OS/2 subsystems in Windows NT 3.1 to run Unix POSIX and OS/2 applications. I think you overlooked that. If Microsoft can keep their OS as the main OS, and still run Linux programs under it, they figure that there is no need for people to reformat and reinstall with Linux in place of Vista. Only in order to do that, they need to work out some sort of deal with Novell, which they are doing.
I am guessing that the Linux subsystem will be added with SP1 or SP2 of Vista.
Remember when Microsoft gave Apple $3XXM, and the Mac Vs. Windows lawsuits were settled? Chances are that Microsoft is now doing the same with Novell, and Novell still owns some patents for Unix that it did not sell to SCO, and Novell was a major player in the IBM vs. SCO lawsuit. Microsoft is just trying to CYA itself, because obviously Vista infringes on some Unix/Linux patents. This is just a way of Microsoft saying to Novell, we'll give you some money to save your company, like we did to Apple, if you promise not to sue us.
I wonder if there will be a SuSE version of MS-Office, like the OSX version of MS-Office created out of the Microsoft-Apple deal?
Novel is not stupid enough to share Microsoft IP with other Linux companies, via Linux source code releases. Quit saying that they are, you ignorant emo whiner!
Novel can pay to release the Linux source code to a different license and then do the same thing with SuSe that Apple does with OSX being based on *BSD Unix, but still keep some code private. Then Novel can do what Apple does, and have open source as well as private code that is IP protected. Xandros and Linspire paid to release Linux code from GPL to another license in order to protect some of their code as IP and has a mixed free software and proprietary software license, which any idiot can tell you that Novel would do the same thing. If you bothered to do any research, instead of going on an Anti-Microsoft rant you'd know that. Instead you think with your emotions, and not with logic and reason like me and many others who know a heck of a lot more about the subject than you apparently do. Grow up child, adults are talking here.
is Microsoft sharing Visual Studio.Net source code with Novel to make a better version of Mono. Maybe they can add in .Net 3.0 framework features? Sharpdevelop and Monodevelop are good IDEs, but could be enhanced with help from Microsoft.
Linux would then gain good development tools to get Windows developers to start developing for Linux using the same languages they use for Windows. If Microsoft does not do that, it could shut out a lot of Windows developers who don't want to learn a new language and want the same IDE and language that they use in Windows.
That didn't stop Linspire and Xandros who both compete with Novel SuSe and try to bring Windows like functionality to Linux for a fee.
It will be a mixed source, the GPL code will be given away royalty free, but the MS licensed code will most likely be not given away. OpenSuSe won't have MS Licensed code, but SuSe Professional will, which is sold anyway. Parts of SuSe Professional source code that are not licensed from Microsoft can be freely distributed.
When corporations look for a Linux to work with their Windows servers and workstations, SuSe Professional might fill that need now. They wouldn't mind paying $49.99 for a Linux OS, when Microsoft Windows costs more than that per license. Novel might even get Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and other OEMs to pre-install SuSe Professional Linux for corporations that want a Linux box.
What do you have against the freedom of speech? Telling me to go back there is censorship!
use some HeadOn for your headache. Apparently you never read my profile here that says everything I post is a joke. I am found to be funny elsewhere and I exist to expose frauds like you.
Alright, now I just got a call saying that for my talk on Slashdot about the daily KOS that I will be killed if I go to vote tomorrow. You can hide behind an anonymous name, and you can even spoof caller ID, but you won't stop me from voting tomorrow even if you do try and kill me.
I can subpoena the phone company for all call records to my number, and I am sure that some of them will trace back to Democratic call centers. I have no device to record phone calls, otherwise I'd post the WAV files here.
I am a member of the Pirate Ninja party of the USA, and I will not be threatened, not even with terrorist tactics such as the above poster tried to use and hide behind an anonymous account. I only posted the truth about what kind of calls I had gotten, and the only place I submitted my personal information to for the Democrats, and I was unjustly attacked by one such Democrat claiming to have ties to the Daily Kos, which show as facts that the Democrats are using smear tactics just as the Republicans are. I am sick of those sort of tactics, and I want to lead the charge for a change in the US system of politics with the Pirate Ninja party.
I post a lot about myself on the Internet under at least the creative content license. Esp on Wiki sites and forums.
I am a member of the Pirate Ninja party and we are pushing for open source of IP and information. We want to have works created under open source licenses to have an online library of books that can easily be revised as information changes. The Pirate Ninja party is all about change and adapting to change, unlike the other parties out there.
By the way I am a moderate.
Moderate means I have the best of both worlds, and none of the biases that liberals and conservatives have. In fact most people are moderates and only extremists are liberals and conservatives. You are only upset that I am a genius who knows how reality, economics, computers, etc work, and I use critical thinking, and you are still being spoon-fed your views and opinions by your party's leaders and you use your emotions to think with.
I submit that both Democrats and Republicans are using these tactics, both Democrats and Republicans use smear tactics. It is time for other candidates to be elected that do not use smear tactics.
Notice how the Republicans are not denying or calling this story a smear tactic, but when it is pointed out that Democrats are doing the same thing, it is called a smear tactic and denied.