The Source has just found this little blooper which suggests that Novell has ghostwriters. We captured more evidence of this before, about 2 years ago. Some of the executives of Novell either do not write their posts or do not write them alone (or use the assistance of technical people to run their blogs, by proxy so to speak). Bill Gates' latest PR charades on the Web are pretty much the same. It's all marketing and part of the branding of "Bill Gates", whose crimes the PR effort is trying to erase with the help of irresponsible reporters. ⬆
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Yuhong Bao
2010-02-08 05:50:26
Ghostwriting is indeed controversial and AFRIK far from a new topic. If you do a Google search on "ghostwritten blogs", you can find a lot of articles about it.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-08 13:08:34
Sometimes they just have PAs.
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-19 02:49:02
From TFA:
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=1865
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=1864
First link is now broken and second one now works, so Novell execs wasn't ghostwriting.
The consensus in comments we see is, IBM is a terrible place to work in, treatment of its workers is appalling, it's utterly foolish to relocate in an effort to retain a job at IBM, and it's foolish to join the company in the first place
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
Summary: New evidence of ghostwriters in Novell's own Web site
Comments
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-08 05:50:26
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-08 13:08:34
Yuhong Bao
2010-02-19 02:49:02