Clarification: SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle: A Conclusion
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| On the second page, Enderle mentions that he received death threats from
| people who had heard about his articles. We received notes of concern that
| the wording of the paragraph in question could imply that the death threats
| were a direct result of reading Groklaw.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34109/121/
The SCO/Microsoft gang is working hard on that coordinated slander. Bill Beebe
supports Maureen O'Gara's stalking and slandering of PJ. Didio carries on with
the FUD and Lyons turns Forbes Magazine into Yellow Journlism.
Related:
The pen is mightier than the FUD
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| A few days ago Rob Enderle proclaimed that Open Source and Linux are losing
| momentum, without any evidence to back this up and despite that IDC and
| Gartner are saying the exact opposite. The FOSS community responded with
| rebuttals after which Rob posted a follow-up in which he makes some
| particularly nasty accusations. However, trying to follow Rob's logic in the
| original article quickly showed that it was not about a loss in momentum at
| all. That was just a framework on which to hang a different tale, one that
| gives us some insight in how he sees the world of software development.
|
| Normally I try to avoid Rob Enderle's stories. The one-man analyst group is
| more often wrong than right, his analyses incoherent and filled with off-base
| assumptions. His latest few pieces are downright insulting but also offer us
| an insight into his reasoning.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/90044/index.html
Microsoft Xbox to Join the Battle for Video Downloading
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| Editors' Note: November 10, 2006, Friday An article in Business Day
| on Tuesday described a decision by Microsoft to offer movies and
| episodes of television shows for downloading through its Xbox Live
| online service in the United States.
|
| The article quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle
| Group, discussing the features that set Xbox Live service apart
| and its position in the market.
|
| But the article did not note that Mr. Enderle had Microsoft as a client,
| a fact later pointed out by a reader. Mr. Enderle does consulting work
| for several of Microsoft's product groups, though not for the one
| developing the Xbox; still, had The Times known of Mr. Enderle's work
| for Microsoft, it would not have sought out his opinion on the product.
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http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50713F83A5B0C748CDDA80994DE404482
http://tinyurl.com/y3avsv
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| The New York Times continues to perplex with its analyst- quoting
| policy. Rather than having analysts declare their ties to clients,
| the paper would prefer to quote analysts that have no experience
| with a client - a protocol which seems to undermine the very point
| of citing analysts.
|
| The Register this week started pushing the Times to explain its
| quoting stance after noticing that Rob Enderle - the most quoted
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| technology analyst on the planet - had been blocked from commenting
| on companies with which he has a financial relationship. The ban
| against Enderle appeared odd, given that Times reporters continue
| to cite analysts from larger firms who also have financial
| relationships with the companies discussed.
|
| [...]
|
| As it turns out, there's a cottage industry devoted to Rob
| Enderle, where Linux zealots fire off this form letter to editors
| whenever Enderle appears talking about Microsoft. Perhaps the Linux
| crowd could put its fabled collective mind toward creating letters
| for all the major analysts. Lord knows, the Times could use
| some help.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
Enderle got it wrong (as usual)
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| When Rob Enderle questions SCO's litigators and lawyers — they were not
| experts, they were not paid enough, etc. —, he simply expose himself as being
| as morally corrupt as SCO is: he never questioned SCO's moral right to sue,
| he only followed "the race" and made some "technical objections". Money pay
| the verdict, right? (The money paid to the lawyers, that is.)
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/08/15/09/05/44-enderle-got-it-wrong-as-usual-
Rob Enderle: 'I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and
the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said 'or
else,' the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me'
Rob Enderle: 'I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every
third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel'
Rob Enderle: 'many Linux supporters are a bunch of potty-mouthed malcontents.
Enterprises are better off staying away from Linux and open source'
Rob Enderle: 'Linux is being widely used on the desktop in the third world,
where applications are limited and labor is inexpensive...'
Rob Enderle: 'I have a hard time seeing the Zealots as any different from
terrorist... I strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything, it
was that zealots'
Dell tests consumer preferences on Linux
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| Company seeks opinions as it considers putting system on consumer PCs.
|
| [...]
|
| "Linux was simply not designed for the desktop, neither as a product
| nor given the economic model around it," said Rob Enderle, head of
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif. "It will be hard for Dell to
| make it work."
|
| Because Linux isn't compatible with most existing computers, what
| it can do is somewhat limited, analysts said. For example, few
| computer-based games run on Linux. Versions of Linux would work
| better on an appliance-type desktop -- one that performs a smaller
| set of specific functions, said Roger Kay, president of EndpointT
| echnologies Associates Inc.
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http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/technology/03/19/19dell.html
Linux fails to defend itself against imaginary FUD problem
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| I wouldn't normally respond to pleas for attention, but Rob Enderle's
| latest piece on Linux and FUD cannot escape comment.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/linux_fails_to.html
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