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Mateus Denigris <Mathew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> On 2007-01-23, Guy Fawkes spake thusly:
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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>>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/11/proprietary-open-xml-extensions-already/
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>>> 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...
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>> The more they struggle, the faster they sink in the quicksand. ;)
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>> Analogy: the more Microsoft tries stupid things to fend off Linux, the more
>> people will wake up and figuring out something's amiss.
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> I actually think microsoft just dosen't care enough to spam blogs.
I've been hearing that argument since before the original astroturfing
facts came out. It was an unconvincing argument way back then, now it
just seems amazingly naive. Microsoft *only* are about their marketing
image, they don't care about anything else. If they need to manipulate
blogs to maintain a particular image, then they will put any amount of
resources into doing so. Recently, for example, they were caught
sending PCs to bloggers who would give them a good review, then they got
cold feet and asked for them back, and then they changed their minds
again. Search cola, this has been well documented in the digests and in
Roy's posts.
> IMHO they are
> going to go for more effective ways of manipulation.
Than telling falsehoods? That's what they do, and it works well.
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