[Info-vax] Google's sleazy marketing - Re: OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[Toby Thain]

On 24/05/12 9:24 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> ...   On Wednesday, the Google doodle was a
> pseudo-Mini-Moog synthesizer to honor the birthday of Robert Moog.  It
> was also used to push Chrome -- especially, after reports had it besting
> M$IE -- and it did so by crippling the doodle on a number of browsers.
>
> I'm glad to see M$IE go but if Google is going to play the same games as
> the evil Redmond empire then, it's only a bittersweet victory.
>
> I will see Michelle Moog (Bob's daughter) in a couple of weeks and I will
> ask her to voice a complaint (hers will carry more clout) about using her
> father's legacy to promote this sort of sleezy marketing push by Google.
>

Co-signed.

--Toby