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| Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 04:19 AM EDT |
Standard tactics from MS: call others out on what you are doing yourself, even
though they are not nearly as bad as you. Apple is doing the same: when others
"copy" them (in some sense of the word) it's theft, but Apple is
infamous for copying other people's good ideas.
Microsoft might also adhere to the philosophy that big lies are easier to pull
off than small ones, although I shudder when facing the possibility that they
might have seen that quote and taken it as sound advice, given its source. It
certainly works, but even considering it means you are way out on the dark
side.
If you need some background information, you can look up "Big Lie" on
Wikipedia. A certain infamous and evil association of people around the time of
WWII used the tactics frequently, while all the time accusing their innocent
opponents of the same. For a while, it worked.
And there we came precariously close to fulfilling Godwin's Law. Sorry if anyone
took offense, but evil people seem to remain the same throughout history, so
nice people need to learn just how unscrupulous and deceitful evil people are,
or we will always be lied to and exploited.
I do not attempt to draw any other, more concrete parallels between that certain
association of pure evil during WWII and Microsoft. That would be entirely
unfair and totally out of proportion. I just point to the "Big Lie"
and the pointing of fingers at others for what you are guilty of yourself,
because it looks as if both strategies are being used very deliberately by
Microsoft.
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