Paul M. Foster is hereby commended for rattling a microsoft shill!
Smitty
Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> SLUGs:
>
> So I'm at work today and I get this phone call. From Microsoft. At
> first, I'm thinking, oh boy, the BSA is coming. No, they want to sell me
> something. I wonder how they got my name? (Duh, they're Microsoft; they
> probably have _everybody's_ name.)
>
> Okay, so what does he want to sell me? It's some sort of whizbang
> website thing that's supposed to bring customers to my site and blah
> yada blah. Okay, is it some software I run on my system? No. Okay, is it
> something I have to run on the server that houses the website? No. Do I
> have to move my site to Microsoft servers? No. Okay, does any of my data
> or my customers' data flow through Microsoft servers? Well, yeah.
>
> Aha! He obviously didn't realize who he was calling. So I let him know.
> I explained to him how Microsoft had gotten their butts in trouble
> recently with their little Passport TOS fiasco. And how Microsoft wasn't
> exactly a friend of us folks in the Open Source/Linux world. And how
> Allchin and Ballmer had both come out recently against Linux and Open
> Source, and...
>
> Click.
>
> I get sales calls all the time from people trying to sell my company one
> thing or another, and as aggravated as I am by it, I let them give their
> little spiel and then try to politely decline. And they almost never
> hang up on me.
>
> But I was ready for this guy. And I danced a little jig when I got off
> the phone.
>
> Ha ha hee hee ho ho! (Childish yes, I know, but how often do you get to
> just unload on some poor defenseless telemarketing geek?)
>
> Paul
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