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Vista Bloggers (at a price....)
- comment Doogman
  
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  Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts.
- comment Shaun Kenney
  
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  Nevermind that Apple is 40% owned by those aligned with the Forces of Darkness, O Mac Guru... :)
  
  Linux. It's all about the open source OS.
- comment The Squeaky Wheel
  
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  I am just mad that BD was not offered one... Unless Jim is holding out on me! :-)
  
  I say to auction it of online for your favorite charity. Everyone wins and independance is preserved.
- comment Shaun Kenney
  
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  ...and now you know why Kirwin was brought on board!
  
  Jim's got three of those bad boys stashed away. One he'll auction, one for pirating software (to show off his l33t haxx0r ski11z), and the other one for his MMORPGs fetish.
  
  See -- I got the guy pegged.
- comment Not Buck Turgidson
  
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  The War Room was recently given a consigment of laptops, and we kept 'em. We can maintain our independence no matter what gifts we're lavished with.
  
  Unfortunately, they were Tandy TRS-80 Model 100s.
- comment Bwana
  
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  I would suggest the wisdom of the late Jess Unruh, speaker of the California House, might apply here in speaking of dealing with lobbyists:
  
  "If you can't drink their beer, [date] their women, take their money, and then vote against them, you shouldn't be here".
  
  Take the laptop, send them a nice thank you note, then rave about linux...
- comment Charles
  
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  I accept gifts of laptops, food, or cash.
  
  Or pretty much anything else.
  
  Joe B. over at NovaTownHall gave me a nice get-well basket once, and it hasn't effected my already effusive love for his blog. :-)
  
  Anybody accepting the gift, remember that your government believes that if someone gives YOU a gift, they too deserve a gift, usually about a 3rd of the value of the gift.
  
  So maybe you can't afford to accept the gift.
- comment Charles
  
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  BTW, having written about how the government thinks that anybody's gift should be their gift, I immediately got this line from "The Fiddler On The Roof" running through my head:
  
  "We know that when good fortune favors two such families there's a reason we deserve it too".


Tuesday, January 02, 2007 Vista Bloggers (at a price....) Question: If someone offered you something because of your blog - say a Ferrari Acer laptop valued at $2,500 - would you keep it, turn it back, donate it to charity? That's the current controversy over 90 top of the line laptops gifted by Microsoft to a select few bloggers: The controversy surrounding Microsoft's $200,000 plus gift of snazzy Acer Ferrari notebooks loaded with Vista Ultimate to 90 bloggers refuses to go away. What's more the messages coming out of Microsoft appear to be mixed - keep it, don't keep it, auction it for charity - what are the bloggers to do? They should do whatever they want - as long as they keep their independence. Blogs of all stripes tend to be very porkupine-ish about their independence. Still, many blogs accept advertisements without a second thought, while others blog on certain products favorably while taking money on the side to review said products. Then we get into the idea of "paid bloggers", a concept so foreign six months ago that now is absolutely critical to the success of any major campaign. What would you do with a Ferarri Acer? Is it wrong to accept the gift? posted by Shaun Kenney \| 1/02/2007 05:24:00 AM \| 8 comments 8 Comments: At 5:39 AM, Doogman said... Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts. At 6:51 AM, Shaun Kenney said... Nevermind that Apple is 40% owned by those aligned with the Forces of Darkness, O Mac Guru... :) Linux. It's all about the open source OS. At 8:29 AM, The Squeaky Wheel said... I am just mad that BD was not offered one... Unless Jim is holding out on me! :-) I say to auction it of online for your favorite charity. Everyone wins and independance is preserved. At 8:35 AM, Shaun Kenney said... ...and now you know why Kirwin was brought on board! Jim's got three of those bad boys stashed away. One he'll auction, one for pirating software (to show off his l33t haxx0r ski11z), and the other one for his MMORPGs fetish. See -- I got the guy pegged. At 11:21 AM, Not Buck Turgidson said... The War Room was recently given a consigment of laptops, and we kept 'em. We can maintain our independence no matter what gifts we're lavished with. Unfortunately, they were Tandy TRS-80 Model 100s. At 3:03 PM, Bwana said... I would suggest the wisdom of the late Jess Unruh, speaker of the California House, might apply here in speaking of dealing with lobbyists: "If you can't drink their beer, [date] their women, take their money, and then vote against them, you shouldn't be here". Take the laptop, send them a nice thank you note, then rave about linux... At 8:55 PM, Charles said... I accept gifts of laptops, food, or cash. Or pretty much anything else. Joe B. over at NovaTownHall gave me a nice get-well basket once, and it hasn't effected my already effusive love for his blog. :-) Anybody accepting the gift, remember that your government believes that if someone gives YOU a gift, they too deserve a gift, usually about a 3rd of the value of the gift. So maybe you can't afford to accept the gift. At 8:56 PM, Charles said... BTW, having written about how the government thinks that anybody's gift should be their gift, I immediately got this line from "The Fiddler On The Roof" running through my head: "We know that when good fortune favors two such families there's a reason we deserve it too". Post a Comment Home
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