Smear campaign? Ha!

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

I had to laugh about Microsoft's tactics today.  Their tough dealing
with IBM was justified because IBM had engaged in a "smear campaign"
against them.

http://www.thestandard.net/articles/special/display/0,2168,4868,00.html?home.ff

Pepperman had asked witness Garry Norris, the IBM official who
led the Windows licensing negotiations between the companies
from 1995-97, whether he had ever seen a white paper written
by IBM entitled "OS/2 Warp vs. Windows 95: A Decision Maker's
Guide to 32-Bit Operating System Technology."

What a hoot?  Has Microsoft never released White Papers?  Compared
itself to other companies or technologies?  There's nothing illegal
about advertising.  Microsoft shows themselves as having no sense of
proportion.  An advertising brochure and illegal attempts to extend a
monopoly are all the same.

Reminds me of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago (father of the
present Mayor), who once said,
"They have vilified me, they have crucified me, they have even
criticized me."