08.14.08
Linux Hate Content in Digg or Just Microsoft Munchkins?
“Use [...] the Internet, etc. to heighten the impression that the enemy is desperate, demoralized, defeated, [...] associated with mental deficiency, as in, “he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny”. Just keep rubbing it in, via the [...] newsgroups, [...] make the complete failure of the competition’s technology part of the mythology of the computer industry.”
–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
Watch this user account in Digg.com. As you can hopefully see:
- It’s used to troll GNU/Linux topics
- It contains insidious messages (e.g. Resider murder)
- It uses my (warped) photos
- It’s being used to harass me directly
People have complained a lot about Slashdot, especially recently. Digg is the same. There are several more examples like this here (further down in the updates). About 4 such accounts got terminated before (the staff confirmed they were replications/abusive). As we pointed out the other day, Microsoft hires agencies to do its trolling.
Victor Soliz said,
August 14, 2008 at 11:51 am
Speaking of slashdot, anyone noticed the incredibly directx biased post regarded OpenGL’s latest? Really, rather than an announcement that openGL was updated it seemed like a “everyone should use directx10″ message.
Roy Schestowitz said,
August 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@Victor: exactly. See the IRC logs from yesterday and the day before that. It was immediately spotted and Slashdot should be ashamed of itself.
The 11th plague said,
August 15, 2008 at 1:01 am
I’ve seen that…OpenGL 3.0 seems a real DELUSION, but switching to DirectX is not a solution at all. Hell, the good part of DX10 is only for Vista, and 10.1 is even less backwards compatible.
Who’s supposed to use DX10.1 ? Nvidia still doesn’t support it…That is a real FAILURE.
Pipo said,
September 6, 2008 at 10:22 am
The only thing that is not supported is the new specification of OpenGL… well, at least in Linux
So that’s a real FAILURE.