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Re: MSFT shilling © and astroturfing™ ..

____/ 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

,----[ Quote ]
| [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
`----

Some older stuff:

http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html

,----[ Quote ]
|     * 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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