Sickening shilling for MS by Ontario privacy commissioner

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:46:52 -0400
Simon got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> Not everything Microsoft is  involved in have to be bad, it's a matter of
> asking these questions and seeing whether they're behaving or not.

Bingo.
 
> To be clear, I think any distrust of Microsoft is consistently well-justified
> by their previous actions, but it can't be so extreme as to be unreasonable.

I'm not saying 'No Way, Shut Them Out'. That's not going to happen. But as you
said, it is not unwarranted to keep a *very* sharp eye on exactly how tied in
they are to the technology, and whose purposes will ultimately be served.

This is not addressed well in the technical discussion.

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