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.
Maybe this is very innocent, but they seem to have taken a solid, stable program from a high-profile Frenchman and looked for ways to marry it with GitHub, i.e. Microsoft/NSA
People leak a lot of material to Techrights because they know, based on the track record, that the sources will be protected and whatever gets published will stay online, in full, no matter how stubborn an effort (even lawsuits and blackmail) will be sent its way
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