In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
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wrote
on Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:32:49 +0000
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 09 March 2007 14:42 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>
>>>> Why feed trolls when the weather forecast is so positive? Troll posts
>>>> today can almost be counted with one hand...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fair point. There are only a tiny handful of them now, I know. I do
>>> wonder if some of our bigger guns haven't been moved onto other jobs?
>>
>> Keep an eye on Wikipedia.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/24/microsoft.wikipedia.ap/index.html
>>
>
> I'm getting a 404 on that one...
>
A search on "microsoft wikipedia" in CNN coughed up
http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/index.html
which is nice to Linus Torvalds, but a bit dated, since
it came out in 2006. :-)
Personally, I don't mind much Linus being a recluse.
It probably gives him a chance to do the normal things
without being constantly watched, critiqued, and stuck in
the public eye. (Like putting his pants on, going
out to the theater/restaurants/etc., and just being.)
Paris "Wow, I'm blonde but I can't drive" Hilton may be
cute but she's so....*public*. :-P
Ditto for Ann "My Adam's Apple is bigger than yours"
Coulter, Britney "Oops, I shaved it again" Spears, Mel
"Damn I'm anti-Semitic" Gibson, George "I married a
librarian" Bush, Dick "Go do something with yourself"
Cheney, and a few other individuals who have made it a
point of embarrassing themselves in public.
(Including Gates and Ballmer.)
A Google search on Microsoft Wikipedia coughed up a few
things, apparently along the lines of Microsoft paying
someone to go and correct Wikipedia entries. While this
in itself isn't too bad a thing, there's a line that
is way too easy to cross between correcting techical
errata and changing opinions. (I myself have corrected
an occasional typo in a Wiki entry. It's simple to do,
but I limit myself to fixing annoying typos, and only
when I get very annoyed. :-) One can only take so many
"mute points", for example...)
I also found
http://www.hunterstrat.com/news/2007/01/23/microsoft-ires-wikipedia-with-pay-for-edit-offer/
and
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070123/microsoft_wikipedia.html?.v=1
so apparently it wasn't an employee but a blogger.
To be somewhat fair, the articles being corrected were
apparently written by one of Microsoft's competitors,
namely IBM. I don't see a love fest between those two
companies anytime soon, even given the more than 10 years'
duration since their breakup over OS/2.
However, I don't see IBM making any egregrious mistakes in
evaluating a competitor's product, either; this is a subtle
piece of work regardless of how one spins it. Too subtle
for me, anyway. :-)
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