__/ [ AB ] on Thursday 08 February 2007 10:42 \__
> On 2007-02-08, Ray Ingles <sorceror@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> claimed:
>> I've more-or-less retired from c.o.l.a., and it appears billwg did the
>> same shortly after I lost interest. But a promise is a promise, and I
>> did say I'd follow up on this, so here I am:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/94b297538ee96514
>>
>> One of billwg's distinguishing features is that he rarely made any
>> concrete statements, and when he did, they were uniformly false. Of
>> course, he'd usually say he was just voicing his 'opinion', and thus
>> any questions of actual truth were irrelevant.
>>
>> But, every once in a while, he'd make an unambiguous, quantifiable
>> prediction, like in the above post. And, well, each time they'd be
>> wrong. This one is no exception:
>>
>> http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=linksys%20wrt54gl
>
> Bilge is still here. He dropped the LOL!!!!!!! from the act and shifted
> nyms, but he's still around. Since he's pretending to be someone else,
> he likely won't rise to take issue with you. Not that he had the guts
> to answer for being wrong anyway.
I'm not too certain about it, but I suspect it's true. same forums, same
style, same infatuation (Sir William). Microsoft appears to be hiring folks
from community colleges to serve as mouthpieces. Some still do this
voluntarily.
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