...>> you don't succeed in business by being ethical.<<
Ed, are you saying you can only succeed by being unethical? Or that there are more factors in play
including being ethical to be successful?
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-----Original Message-----
From: profoxtech-bounces AT leafe .D.OT com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:47 AM
To: profoxtech AT leafe .D.OT com
Subject: Re: [NF] Oooo, isn't Vista shiny? (paid to blog positively?)
On Dec 30, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Stephen the Cook wrote:
>> Uh, the review wasn't for the laptop; it was for the Vista OS.
>>
>> A better analogy would be if Apple sent a killer home theatre system
>> to the reviewer for free with no strings attached, on the hope that
>> he might evaluate the video iPod.
>
> What a load of crap.
>
> Sorry but you have to have a equipment for an OS eval.
This is a version of Windows, right? You don't need special hardware for Windows.
> The manufacturer,
> M$, provided the equipment and set it properly for the tests to be
> evaluated.
That in itself should be the headline then: Vista - requires extreme hardware configuration
to run.
> They are trying to stack the deck for a positive eval, sure.
> Making the hardware consistent and taking one major point of the a
> possible problem should be done by any manufacturer in this case. I'm
> sure that Apple did it as well ;->
Again, that's my point. You can evaluate Vista on any x86 hardware.
You can also evaluate a video iPod using its built-in screen. Sure, a whole home theatre will make
it look better, and giving it away will certainly influence the reviewer, consciously or
unconciously.
The question isn't whether Microsoft was acting ethically. Of course they weren't; you don't
succeed in business by being ethical. Apple has also acted unethically at various time in the past;
I guess you think that that somehow makes it OK for me, as if I'm some brainless drone who worships
Apple. The issue is the ethics of the reviewers who either didn't recognize this for the payola it
was, or who chose to ignore that inconvenient fact.
-- Ed Leafe
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