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JBoss's Fleury Abjures Astroturfing
comforteagle writes "JBoss head honcho Marc Fleury has laid down the law about Astroturfing in the aftermath of being accused of the practice without actually admitting it was done. 'Our visibility and success puts our customers and partners in a situation where you expect and demand that employees of JBoss Inc. hold themselves to that higher standard. Let's put the professional back in professional open source. "Astroturfing" is hereby banned at JBoss, starting with me.'" jg21 writes "After the Slashdotting of the whole issue, the wider community took up the theme. LinuxWorld's editor in chief took to task those who sought to "pollute the knowledge space," and then Richard Öberg and Cameron Purdy took up the theme with a call to raise the cyber-bar when it coms to integrity. Now JBoss's CEO has recanted: there will be no more fake posts from JBoss staffers, he says. Hmm, time will tell."
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The balance will probably tip towards cream when we require a license to breed. Seriously. As it stands, stupid people are outbreeding the smart ones. The stupid people are the ones who keep producing the crap in the cesspool.
In order for any cesspool/genepool/information pool to have more cream than crap, three things have to happen:
- Smart people need to make it their duty to breed.
- Women, currently being the bearers of life, need to be more selective in who's child they choose to carry. Men, likewise, need to be more selective about their seed.
- There needs to be a license instituted that prevents stupid people from breeding.
Otherwise, we're all pretty much screwed. Yay smart people...-TheTXLibra
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