Summary: OpenSUSE coordinates the gaming of social networks for OpenSUSE hype

IT WAS Microsoft Enderle who promised "amazing numbers" to Microsoft and "OpenSUSE boosters" [1, 2] might be up to similar plans. Shayon Mukherjee has just posted a message to the opensuse-announce mailing list. It starts with the following:

Hello , Its great to see that the new openSUSE Board Members are announced[1].And i would take this time to Congratulate Bryen Yunashko , Rupert Horstkoetter and Pavol Rusnak for the same and hope to have a much more better experience , more enthusiasm and more fun working to/for the openSUSE Community as a openSUSE team.

And now its the time to Tweet , Blog , Digg and facebook the announcement and let everyone know the new energetic team of the openSUSE Board is up. So go ahead and spread the Word.And make a point that this time we have more than "Those sweet numbers" like we had for the openSUSE 11.2 release.

Then, subscribers are given the URLs to potentially "boost".

Well, we are used to seeing Novell staff in Reddit for example. From other Webmasters we have learned that Novell IP addresses are also being used to anonymously defame yours truly. ⬆