Linux Hate Content in Digg or Just Microsoft Munchkins?

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-08-14 13:47:52 UTC
Modified: 2008-08-14 13:47:52 UTC

"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.

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Victor Soliz

2008-08-14 16:51:20

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

2008-08-14 17:04:16

@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

2008-08-15 06:01:03

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

2008-09-06 15:22:56

The only thing that is not supported is the new specification of OpenGL... well, at least in Linux :D

So that's a real FAILURE.

Linux Hate Content in Digg or Just Microsoft Munchkins?

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