Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia 355
Unpaid Schill writes "Over on the O'Reilly Network, there's an interesting piece about how Microsoft tried to hire people to contribute to Wikipedia. Not wanting to do the edits directly, they were looking for an intermediary to make edits and corrections favorable to them. Why? According to the article, it was apparently both to let people know that Microsoft will not 'enable death squads with their UUIDs' and also to fight the growing consensus that OOXML contains a useless pile of legacy crap which is unfit for standardization."
Microsoft is better than Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Honesty.... (Score:5, Funny)
Are they *that* ethically challenged?
Or is it that they are *that* desperate to be cool and loved?
How about a policy of honesty
Yes.
That's their job.
That would be the anti-thesis of marketing.
My evil brain... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isn't this just spam using robots? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean it runs out???
Re:Honesty.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Honesty.... (Score:2, Funny)
+1 for ball of steel.
Re:hi, I'm the guy you're bashing today (Score:1, Funny)
wait, wait, I know this one... Evangelists? Or was it PR people? Aw shucks, I forget