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Given the legal complexity and politics involved Engadget shouldn't just echo the rhetoric of a notorious Microsoft lackey.
by yanw 16y ago
Given the legal complexity and politics involved Engadget shouldn't just echo the rhetoric of a notorious Microsoft lackey.
- blub 16y agoWhen making such strong statements one should provide proof. Edit: I am referring to the parent.
- stcredzero 16y agoAre you referring to Oracle, Engadget, or the parent commenter?
- yuhong 16y agoI remember reading about it on Techrights, for one source.
- kprobst 16y agoIsn't that boycott novell? IIRC that guy calls everyone who disagrees with him "Microsoft booster" so I'd take it at face value.
- yuhong 16y ago>Isn't that boycott novell? Yea, it is the new name. >IIRC that guy calls everyone who disagrees with him "Microsoft booster" so I'd take it at face value. Yea, I do disagree with some of their claims. I just wanted to mention a source that I can think of off the top of my head to help readers.
- rbanffy 16y agoTechrights cannot be called unbiased themselves...
- yuhong 16y agoIt is easily verifiable by running JAD yourself.
- jedsmith 16y agoOr downloading http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/sonivox.git;a=blob_plain;f=arm-wt-22k/misc/MMAPI.zip;hb=HEAD http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/sonivox.g... and reviewing the Java source therein. That makes the blog author's claim verifiable in terms of it exists.
- kenjackson 16y agoAnd the reporter is actually an ex-copyright and trademark attorney. So he does at least have rich domain knowledge in the law, and he has been following this case carefully.
- rbanffy 16y agoI think yanw is wondering whether the author is only in Engadget's payroll or if there's another entity paying for his expertise after observing a consistent biased behavior. BTW, I have no idea whether the author is or is not working for Microsoft.
- kenjackson 16y agoNilay Patel is almost certainly not. The classic Engadget site has really no one who is a Microsoft fan. The HD Engadget site does have some MS fans, largely because of Media Center. Most of Engadget is accused of being an Apple fanboi site. Engadget's claim is that Apple just makes good products. I'm inclined to believe them. For the most part they seem really fair. I believe Nilay (and Josh and Paul) all use Mac Books as their primary computer. And Nilay uses a Droid of some sort as his primary phone. If they are on the MS payroll... MS needs their money back as they routinely slam MS. They slam MS so often, I think you'd even enjoy the site. :-)
- rbanffy 16y ago> I think you'd even enjoy the site. :-) Sadly, I have very little free time these days. I even gave up on Engadget's headline podcast...
- kprobst 16y agoum, this isn't Slashdot. Feel free to address the issues in his analysis and comment on them.