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Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the what's-left-is-right dept.

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."

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  1. Re:hi, I'm the guy you're bashing today by jrothwell97 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Rubbish. Microsoft paying someone to 'correct' Wikipedia is obviously suspicious and anti-competitive. And a "technical evangelist" is a posh name for a "salesman".

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  2. Re:hi, I'm the guy you're bashing today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doug, you might be the most disingenuous shitbag I've seen comment on slashdot in years. If you actually can't blame your boss for allowing you to cause this PR nightmare, you should be fired. Microsoft haters everywhere are ROFL at you right now.

    (who can explain the difference between PR and evangelism?)