Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Nov 2006 12:52 UTC, submitted by David Hanak
"The recently announced agreement between Microsoft and Novell has resulted in much concern that it could be harmful for Linux and other free software. However, the agreement itself, as well as its timing and comments made by Microsoft executives about it, may actually be a very good thing - and perhaps even worthy of celebration!" 
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2005-07-13
"Yes, this comment is off-topic"
on topic
No, it wasn't on topic. It was trolling and yet another attempt at sh!t-disturbing.
He made an inflammatory statement given the nature of the thread, offering absolutely nothing in the way of context or explanation and then followed it up with his usual surprise and implied a big, "who, me?" when finding himself modded.
It's basically symptomatic of a growing problem on this board. There's nothing wrong with posting counter-opinions, disagreeing with content, disputing claims, stating your mind etc. as long as it's in context, on-topic and not intentionally flame-baiting just to see what kind of a response you can generate. It's sad that you have to read through 20 posts of juvenille attention-seeking crap back and forth in order to find interesting or informative opinions.
Still, I didn't mod him. A point wasted on a troll is a point that can't be given to somebody worth modding up, so I have to save my negative mods for the really obnoxious posts.
The one thing I will agree with is that mod points are often abused on well written or well argued posts simply because people disagree with the poster's opinion. That's a shame. (I've also got a pet peeve with people who criticize or insult a poster's grammar or spelling, it seems intolerant of the fact that many participants here come from countries where English is not the national language, but I digress...)
And OT trolling deserves a neg.