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Microsoft using names of dead people in lobbying tactic!

This is the funniest damn thing I've read all week:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...microlob23.html

Some stories just write themselves! Slick move, Micro$oft!

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I thought it was funny too. Geez you think they would learn. Remember a few years ago when they were writing letters-to-the-editor for major newspapers and pawning the letters as if they were from regular people?

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Remember a few years ago when they were writing letters-to-the-editor for major newspapers and pawning the letters as if they were from regular people?

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Not to defend everything Microsoft does but - it is a very common tactic for all groups that do lobbying to give their supporters either pre-written letters or to give them talking/witing points to use in their own letters.

Common phrases and identical wordings happen everyday in any kind of lobbying activity.

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Jonathan

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Originally posted by jhappel
it is a very common tactic for all groups that do lobbying to give their supporters either pre-written letters or to give them talking/witing points to use in their own letters.

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Here in Texas we have a long-standing tradition of letting dead people vote, so I don't see why they can't write letters too.

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True, but they don't usually come from people who are deceased.

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Here in Texas we have a long-standing tradition of letting dead people vote,

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