"So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of Microsoft partisanship! Apparently they are frustrated at the amount of spin from some ODF stakeholders on Wikipedia and blogs. I think I'll accept it: FUD enrages me and MS certainly are not hiring me to add any pro-MS FUD, just to correct any errors I see." So basically, it seems as if Microsoft is trying to 'hire' people to edit Wikipedia.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2006-04-21
Personaly, I don't think you'll make it out of your fanatic disorder. Beliefs are tough to change. Even the idiotic ones like the average OSS fundies has accepted. And besides, PCs and bandwidth are too inexpensive and easy to obtain. The flock will always be in reach for a quick fix.
I got a good chuckle out this news story. Started with an OSS fundie (aka MS hater) going beserk. Then hallucinating some scenario in his small head. Posts his hallucinated scenario it in his blog to make noise. Every other OSS fundies comes out to cheer him on his "brave" coup against the great satan and then tries to spread it to every other news site.
The worst thing in all this is that Jelliffe didn't even apologize over his apparent mistake. Narrow-minded like a... 
FYI, there have been various reports recently to indicate that closed source software and closed-source only developers are in a small (and vanishing) minority, even in the US. Perhaps that's why they feel such an urgent need to spout such vehement rubbish as your post.
Besides, I'm hardly to take advice from someone who just paraphrases the old line, "there's one born every minute".
Member since:
2005-06-29
@tweenex
Personaly, I don't think you'll make it out of your fanatic disorder. Beliefs are tough to change. Even the idiotic ones like the average OSS fundies has accepted. And besides, PCs and bandwidth are too inexpensive and easy to obtain. The flock will always be in reach for a quick fix.
I got a good chuckle out this news story. Started with an OSS fundie (aka MS hater) going beserk. Then hallucinating some scenario in his small head. Posts his hallucinated scenario it in his blog to make noise. Every other OSS fundies comes out to cheer him on his "brave" coup against the great satan and then tries to spread it to every other news site.
The worst thing in all this is that Jelliffe didn't even apologize over his apparent mistake. Narrow-minded like a...