Text 5228, 95 rader
Skriven 2005-06-20 23:01:38 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5226 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>

Yep, it's the same Dvorak. I thought that the various mags just saw the
handwriting on the wall as to the fate of OS/2 back then and went with the
obvious winner. IBM sucked at marketing it and the media saw where the
advertising dollars were. It's the Republican way Gary - Don't bite the hand
that advertises <g>



"Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
news:42b77f73$1@w3.nls.net...
> Is this the same Dvorak that worked for PC Magazine when they were totally
> in bed with MS and doing the vaporware thing for years against OS/2??  Oh
> and NOW he gets indignant?!!
>
> Gary
>
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:42b75f63$1@w3.nls.net...
>> Let's see -  a MS MVP 'discovers'  security concerns with BitTorrent
>> while
>> MS publishes a research paper outlining a 'new' file sharing technology
>> similar to BitTorrent. Coincidence? Yeah right!!
>>
>> Her's a portion of Dvorak's article
>>
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1829724,00.asp
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1829725,00.asp
>>
>> The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent
>> The Root of the Accusations. This was all begun by a Microsoft MVP
> character
>> named Chris Boyd, who is always described as a "renowned" security
>> expert.
>> By whose standards is he renowned? Has he written books? Academic papers?
>> Articles? What exactly besides blogging? So where does this assertion
>> come
>> from? The blog?
>>
>> He posted his BitTorrent discovery on his security blog here. He
> discovered
>> that the Aurora spyware is on machines that also have BitTorrent
>> installed
>> and implies that BitTorrent has more to do with it than a casual
>> coincidence. Does this guy know that BitTorrent is a downloading system
> and
>> people who do a lot of downloading tend to have it on their machines? The
>> cause and effect logic here eludes me. Is he saying it's impossible to
>> get
>> Aurora without BitTorrent?
>>
>> Whatever the case, someone managed to get his discovery of spyware
> (spyware
>> is news?) into CNet News, eWeek, and IDG News service, as well as
>> hundreds
>> of blogs talking about how BitTorrent was an "adware distribution
> vehicle."
>> Hey, BitTorrent will distribute whatever you choose to distribute. How is
>> this news? This all happened just as the once skeptical, now wishy-washy
>> Register (which also reported on the BitTorrent issue without questioning
>> it) reported on Avalanche being oh-so-superior to BitTorrent.
>>
>>
>> For a good laugh view the Avalanche PowerPoint slide show. It shows all
>> sorts of graphs as if Avalanche is actually in the wild being used. I
>> have
>> never seen such a crock in my life. Can you say "dry lab?"
>>
>> Where Is the News Reporting? What bothered me the most about this episode
>> was that there was no reporting whatsoever regarding the BitTorrent as
>> spyware claims or even the credibility of the renowned MVP Chris Boyd. It
>> was basically parroting a leap-of-faith accusation in a blog that somehow
>> developed into these eventual talking points: Use BitTorrent and you'll
> get
>> spyware. BitTorrent sucks, and oh, Microsoft has something better,
> although
>> it's never been shipped-but it's better!
>>
>> Does this sort of media irresponsibility and laziness ever end? Or why
> don't
>> we just shoot everyone doing good work, lie about the facts, and turn
>> everything over to Microsoft and its Redmond compound? The only defenders
> of
>> BitTorrent I saw regarding this issue were buried here and there on
>> Slashdot. They sure were not in the newsrooms-or the blogs for that
> matter.
>> All the stories I saw were disgraceful.
>>
>>
>
>

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