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[News] Anonymous Microsoft Astroturfers Attacking Open Source Bloggers Now

  • Subject: [News] Anonymous Microsoft Astroturfers Attacking Open Source Bloggers Now
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:06:35 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
It is my suspicion that Microsoft employees are personally attacking open
source bloggers who say things about Microsoft. Watch this older comment:

WATCH THE COMMENT:

,----[ Quote ]
| Backhanded compliments are always transparent. If you want your blog to
| have any credibility at all, you might want to consider putting some
| facts in with your opinion. You might also consider putting more of
| your own words in a blog post. You seem to have put the other blog'sw
| ords in your own little wrapper -- hoping to get credit for the ideas.
| 
| 
| [MATT'S NOTE: The IP address for this one came from One Microsoft
| Way in Redmond, WA. Imagine that.]
| Posted by: Tobin (Microsoft Employee) at May 29, 2007 08:39 AM
`----

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/sco_was_microso.html

This isn't the first. A lot of trolling from Microsoft. This one was caught,
but some might be using proxies.

Here's Savio, who is new at InfoWorld.

Open source @ IBM: Savio Rodrigues speaks

,----[ Quote ]
| I asked Savio Rodrigues, who replaced me on the Open Sources blog
| but originally blogged here, to comment on the state of open source
| at IBM.
`----

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9742169-16.html

They might be having a go at him now...

Funding FSF's fight vs. Microsoft

,----[ Quote ]
| On that note, I noticed a Help Make Poverty History graphic on the top 
| right-hand corner of Bob's blog. If you think the GPLv3 fight is important 
| enough for your donations, maybe you'll consider this fight also?  
`----

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/funding_fsfs_fi.html

Watch the comments. This isn't the first time that an anonymous person attacks
the poster and tries to get posters in trouble with editors/administrator at
InfoWorld, which is a respectable Web site.

Another new example: Rob Wier

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11236681&postID=6486284387121513938

,----[ Quote ]
| "Anonymous said...
| 
|     I hope Microsoft sues you for inciting panic. "
`----

More examples like this exist. Yesterday I accused de Icaza as well.

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/11/not-shutting-up/



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