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JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme
Reader scubabear writes "For years rumors have run rampant about employees of JBoss Inc. being actively encouraged to post anonymously, drumming up business by flooding the net with fake posts and simultaneously attacking competitors, all from behind a safe veil of anonymity. With the advent of a new feature for tracking users by IP on TheServerSide.com, the floodgates have been opened and those rumors have apparently been confirmed.
The Java blog space now erupted with posts from a variety of bloggers (here, here, and here for a start) exposing a variety of anonymous/pseudonymous accounts used by JBoss employees to put forth their Professional Open Source message and simultaneously slam anyone who gets in their way in online technical communities such as TheServerSide, JavaLobby, and various personal blogs. The evidence shows how a corporation can manipulate popular opinion via anonymous personalities, that open source companies can be just as ruthless as closed source when it comes to marketing their wares, and that you should never forget that your cookies and IP address can and will be tracked online. No official response has been heard yet from the JBoss crew. Disclosure: I'm one of those bloggers erupting on this issue (see my story here)."
This anonymous stuff is just a bunch of crap. Why anyone would listen to someone posting anonymously is beyond me.
Just take my advice, don't listen to anonymous posters...ever! Even if their argument is completely flawless and/or logically impermeable, ignore them.
(By the way, I don't work for JBoss, so you can listen to me.)
JBOSS IS AWESOMEEMO!
- Not a JBOSS employee
- Really I'm not
Casual Games/Downloads
Bloggers do something useful? I don't believe it for a second.
Life in Orange County
Seriously, who is going to take a company that prides itself on being a Proffesional Open Sourse Company.... have to wonder what marketing genious came up with that one...
drunk chemists
Im actually working for 7 governments and 14 large corporations to spy on the slashdot community and try to sway their opinion. also i sometimes spell things wrong to make it look like im just an average person.
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...that all of /.'s "Anonymous Coward" postings bashing SCO can be backtracked to Linus now?
I must say that I am shocked to hear that some thing like this could take place, and on the internet of all places. I thought that every thing I read on the internet was true and that I would make millions from forwarding emails and that hot 18 year old on AIM that wants me is not a man.
Oh wait, I'm retarded...
Trust nothing you read on the internet...I am sexy!
You do, of course, mean hundreds of thousands, right?
Qualitas edurus commercium, nullus penitus net rimor, nullus deus beneficium
I'm inclined to believe, often instantly and completely, a slashdot posting endorsing product X, because the poster seems unaffiliated and genuine and doesn't really have anything to gain from endorsing it.
I spent a lot of time thinking about this sentence, carefully formulating a well-reasoned, thoughtful response to it. Then I went back over it, polishing it and making it more concise, pruning away every superfluous word that might obscure the essential message I was trying to get across. It came down to one word:
Boob.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
> What does WTF mean?
What's a Nubian?
The way I've heard it is this:
If someone says "Trust me.", count your fingers after shaking their hand.
This is the Constitution.This is the Constitution under the Bush administration. Any questions?
You ruined a potentially good joke. You should have said: What the fuck does WTF mean?
Thats thoughtcrime bitch!
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley