Public Reactions to Microsoft

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Yesterday David Lawsky from Reuters wrote a story about our suggestion
that MD be required to divest the browser.  After the story was picked up
by Yahoo, I received a rapid wave of email responses, most quite rude, but
also, surprisingly similar in terms of various talking points regarding
the case, and most lacking a normal email footer, from various hotmail and
yahoo type free email accounts.  Among the more identifiable responses
were firms that were in some type of strategic alliance with Microsoft.  
And I also heard directly from Microsoft -- in a similar missive.  It
could be that all this was quite spontaneous, after all, I have been
reading those MS paid for polls that report what public opinion is.  But
it also has the feel of a partly organized response.  This has happened
several times in the past 2 years.

  Jamie


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James Love 
Center for Study of Responsive Law | Consumer Project on Technology 
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