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Re: Here Comes the Microsoft Shill to Bring Balance to Blogs

  • Subject: Re: Here Comes the Microsoft Shill to Bring Balance to Blogs
  • From: "Darth Chaos" <DarthChaosofRSPW@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 23 Jan 2007 11:14:03 -0800
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Mateus Denigris wrote:
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> On 2007-01-23, Guy Fawkes spake thusly:
> >
> > "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
> > news:1500104.ujcXu3ZPFO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/11/proprietary-open-xml-extensions-already/
> >>
> >> See first comment. Didn't take long, did it? Yesterday it was reported
> >> that
> >> Microsoft offers money for people to edit Wikipedia information about
> >> OOXML.
> >> Now they appear to be coming to blogs, in the form of comments. No
> >> disclosure, nothing new...
> >
> > The more they struggle, the faster they sink in the quicksand. ;)
> >
> > Analogy: the more Microsoft tries stupid things to fend off Linux, the more
> > people will wake up and figuring out something's amiss.
>
> I actually think microsoft just dosen't care enough to spam blogs. IMHO they are
> going to go for more effective ways of manipulation. I would be enourmously
> suprised to discover that it was actually true. Wikipedia is more their style,
> but fortunately, wikipedia does a fairly good job of reviewing submissions for
> citations and references.

Uh, isn't spamming illegal? If so, Wouldn't "spamming blogs" turn
Microsoft into criminals? Oh wait...they already are criminals. :)


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