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Microsoft PR Paying to "Correct" Wikipedia
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."
legal@microsoft.com? Are you shitting me? CmdrTaco should seriously think about adding article modding to slashcode.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Nah, Gates is probably OK. It's only that guy from the EPA who has no dick.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
People like you make companies think my resume is exaggerated. I really have programmed in over 20 languages, and dabbled in almost every field of CS imaginable, since I started programming 15 years ago at age 9. I have to condense my resume and omit a lot of the cool parts.