● 08.14.08

●● Linux Hate Content in Digg or Just Microsoft Munchkins?

Posted in GNU/Linux at 8:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

“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 topicsIt contains insidious messages (e.g. Resider murder)It uses my (warped) photosIt’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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