Gracenote Founder Rewriting History At Wikipedia

An anonymous reader writes "Gracenote founder Steve Scherf is busy again in his attempts to rewrite history after his recent interview at Wired. This time around he is aggressively deleting or seeking removal of any content on Wikipedia that discusses the controversy behind the commercialization of the formerly GPL'd cddb. Slashdotters may remember when cddb joined the Bad Patent Club back in 2000. Gracenote followed up by filing lawsuits against its customers for trying to switch to freedb and for alleged patent violations. Are there any Slashdotters out there who know the facts about Gracenote — its history, its business practices, its lawsuits? Wikipedia needs your help."

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Re:Interesting guilt plea

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If you think Fox News is the only source of "no facts whatsoever" on TV, you're stupider than you look. Well, Fox News is just a low hanging fruit that often masquerades well as a legitimate news source. Another 'fine' example is Rush 'water boy' Limbaugh, who actually admitted on his show to 'carrying the water' for the republican party, which was likely the most honest thing he had ever said. However anytime Anne 'happy widow' Coulter is on any TV program, the 'factual content' tends to drop more than anyone else.

BTW, for the record, I said "Seriously, part of being a 'responsible consumer of knowledge' from any source is knowing that the facts may be different than presented.", I do not limit my skepticism from any source, in particular Slashdotters who use 3rd grade taunts.