Re: [tlug] Fair use effects on the economy

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Lyle Saxon writes:

 > That's quite interesting - especially the last two paragraphs:

Has anybody here actually read ANY part of the study?  Or are we all
into believe-anything-we-read-that-accords-with-our-prejudices mode?

The first two sentences are very interesting too, because it's
immediately obvious that this is a puff piece worthy of the SPA.  The
calculation described is extremely bogus.  It would justify claiming
that Microsoft alone is responsible for X% of U.S. GDP, where the X is
the percentage of U.S. businesses which now have a Microsoft product
installed somewhere on the premises.

I'll get back to you on the methodology and results of the study
itself, but we can immediately conclude that this is a group we do
*not* want to be associated with, because they push exaggeration well
over the boundary of falsehood.  Microsoft is more trustworthy in its
PR (and I do *not* consider that "praising with faint damns").