Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> The Linux Desktop's Next Challenge: Layer 8
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> | These sorts of discussions, especially on sites like Computerworld and
> | here on Linux Journal tend to bring out the same comments from the
> | evangelists (using the term loosely) that now is the time to move to
> | Linux on the desktop
> | and in response you get people saying the last time I tried to install
> | Linux?. In both of these discussions, both points are valid and, in many
> | cases, there is merit to the position.
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> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-desktops-next-challenge-layer-8
Restarting the childish One Laptop Per Idiot munchkin project should
be good enough for micoshaft asstroturfers.
They will ritually post asstroturfing posts to blogs and newsgroups only
if they get their One Laptop Per Idiot munchkin special laptop.
> Recent:
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> Shameless Front Group Plans More Astroturf
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> | After its public relations firm was outed for sending fake letters
> | opposing the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill to members of Congress, the
> | American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is expanding its
> | "grassroots" outreach. The coal industry front group "is launching a $1
> | million campaign" to secure more concessions for coal in the Senate
> | version of the climate change bill.
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> http://www.prwatch.org/node/8489
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> Happy Birthday to Me, Tech = Change, Change is Good
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> | Using computers doesn't require any kind of special geek talents, just
> | study and a mind open to letting some actual knowledge in. Anyone can
> | learn anything, despite the anti-Linux FUD that insists Linux is not
> | ready for "the masses" because it's not magically simple; these
> | fictional moronic masses who exist only in the mind of FUDsters and
> | astroturfers. It's a shame to waste so many electrons on such dumb
> | stuff.
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> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-08-008-35-OP-CY
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> Related:
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> Microsoft puppets spamming ANSI
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> | An impressive list of spam comments asking for supporting OOXML and
> | backward compatibility, claiming also that "Open XML in no way
> | contradicts any other international document standard". No really?
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> http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-11857/microsoft-puppets-spamming-ansi
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> | In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing
> | when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing
> | disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its
> | antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans
> | for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from
> | deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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