____/ Doug Mentohl on Saturday 23 June 2007 18:34 : \____
> "The Register printed part of the sales channel letter. Over the next 24
> hours, The Register got a bunch of letters from nominally "real" people
> outlining the rest of the talking points The Register had left out of
> the first report, essentially confirming that MSFT gets people to
> astroturf for them"
>
> http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html
Examples from the past few weeks alone:
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-11857/microsoft-puppets-spamming-ansi
Microsoft puppets spamming ANSI
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62021038,00.htm
That's the guy whom Microsoft ***paid*** to edit Wikipedia.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/sco_was_microso.html
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| [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
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Some older stuff:
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html
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| * Paid for ads purportedly from a think-tank, although at least one
| signer of the ad defended it. You might want to take a closer look at
| what the
| web has to offer on this issue.
| * Paid for Gartner "research" and DH Brown "research". Also paid for
| IDC "research".
| * Planned to plant fake op-ed pieces in local newspapers. See also this
| C|Net article.
| * Fake "grass root" letter writing campaign. See also this article. This
| time, the astroturf is directed to Attorneys General of the US states
| suing Microsoft for anti-trust violations.
| * Planted shills in a Compuserve forum
| * Planted shills in ZDNet TalkBack forum and MSNBC forum shills
| * Planted shills in an AOL forum
| * Stuffed an on-line ballot box
| * Stuffed another on-line ballot box
| * Fund a think-tank to produce a favorable whitepaper.
| * Astroturfed a Register reporter
| * Secretly funded a Grass roots Network of "Citizens".
| * Analysis of Microsoft lobbying and astroturfing
| * Posted fake user testimonials. See also this commentary.
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