Comments on: Memo to Novell: Leave YouTube Alone http://techrights.org/2008/12/13/novl-marketing-and-videos/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: G. Michaels http://techrights.org/2008/12/13/novl-marketing-and-videos/comment-page-1/#comment-48816 G. Michaels Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:00:27 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/13/novl-marketing-and-videos/#comment-48816 * What kind of pollution or disruption do you figure this is causing? * YouTube <a href="http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=163" rel="nofollow">has</a> almost 80 million videos, and serves them about 100 million times a day. People upload 150,000 videos a day. You're worried about 4 Novell videos? * Is this against the YouTube TOS? Something that Google forbids? * Is it illegal? * Did you search for videos from Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Norton, Sybase? Video Professor? Funny Cats? Ringtone spam? * Your collaborators <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/gordymichaels/thoughts-on-advocacy/slashdot-firehose" rel="nofollow">disrupt and pollute</a> other communities while promoting your blog. Are you planning on writing an article asking them to stop? The last time you posted something about this, if I recall, you accused Novell employees of "astroturfing" YouYube or something like that, and you were then forced to modify your headline to reflect the fact that you were completely wrong. Maybe during the period where you manually attach your silly red text to my comment you could find 5 minutes to reply as well? That would be grand. I'm having trouble understanding the idea behind this post. I don't want to just assume it's just that you hate Novell, you have a post quota to meet and you're bored. <font color="#ff0000"><b>Note</b>: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/25/jose-on-mono/#comment-39320" rel="nofollow">documented here</a>. * What kind of pollution or disruption do you figure this is causing?
* YouTube has almost 80 million videos, and serves them about 100 million times a day. People upload 150,000 videos a day. You’re worried about 4 Novell videos?
* Is this against the YouTube TOS? Something that Google forbids?
* Is it illegal?
* Did you search for videos from Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Norton, Sybase? Video Professor? Funny Cats? Ringtone spam?
* Your collaborators disrupt and pollute other communities while promoting your blog. Are you planning on writing an article asking them to stop?

The last time you posted something about this, if I recall, you accused Novell employees of “astroturfing” YouYube or something like that, and you were then forced to modify your headline to reflect the fact that you were completely wrong.

Maybe during the period where you manually attach your silly red text to my comment you could find 5 minutes to reply as well? That would be grand. I’m having trouble understanding the idea behind this post. I don’t want to just assume it’s just that you hate Novell, you have a post quota to meet and you’re bored.

Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.

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