That Man Who 'Deleted His Entire Company' With a Line of Code? It Was a Hoax (pcworld.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As many Slashdot readers speculated, the story about a man deleting his entire company with a line of code was a hoax. Marco Marsala, the owner of a Web hosting company claimed on a forum earlier this week that he deleted all the data on his company's server. Stack Overflow, which runs the forum, says that the post was a hoax, and pointed to an article on an Italian news outlet, which describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company. "It was just a joke," Marsala told the paper.

Comments

Interesting tactic

[Crashmarik]

"Give us your data we'll delete it"

I suppose they really really believe, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Idiot

[nukenerd]

describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company

He tries to get more business by saying he deleted all his customers' data ? What an idiot. And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.