Yes Roy Schestowitz is one of the 2 people behind Boycottnovell as well as other boycott sites. He is also connected to Groklaw where he poisons that site as well and he is a Netscape scout on Propeller where he has peoples accounts terminated if they disagree with his quite warped philosophy.
He is one well financed and dangerous quack. Depending upon what side of the discussion you are on of course.
The drones over in comp.os.linux.advocacy look upon Roy Schestowitz as some kind of God.
Most people however think his tinfoil suit is on way too tight:)
If you want to HEAR Roy Schestowitz in action and get to judge for yourself how little he knows about the topics he discusses, just give a listen here:
http://www.linux.com/feature/122470
D/L the mp3...That's Roy droning on and on until the moderator explains to Roy that he wanted to hear from someone else to start the conversation off.
Bring a few cans of Jolt though because you will have a difficult time staying awake.
A few comments. Ad hominem attacks are generally not a good thing because it is far more mature to attack the subject rather than the messenger. However in this case, the messenger IS the subject so is it really an ad hominem attack?
As for Schestowitz, he is obviously being compensated for his 'work' because according to his web site he is a PHD student which is quite time consuming in itself. Where does he get time, and motivation, to host various boycott sites, post thousands of messages to USENET, digg, Propeller and various other sites? This is literally a 24x7 task given the huge number of messages, comments etc.
And if you read his messages in comp.os.linux.advocacy, you can see that these are very long winded with comments, reference urls (usually referring to one of his own blogs) and quite oddly formated text.
The logical conclusion is that he is being paid, and that this is a well organized campaign which is being funded.
Also it does not appear to be humanly possible to accomplish what he is doing in a given 24 hour period unless the person is not sleeping, not working and certainly not studying and preparing for a PHD program.
FWIW he has just posted a message in comp.os.linux.advocacy calling this entire thread an attack on him by shills.
To me it looks like people are on to his purpose and are starting to ask questions of him as to his real motives and he doesn't like that.
He makes the same complaints on digg.com BTW where he claims the same 3 people are stalking him and modding him down.
That doesn't explain why his ratings are generally in the - double digits and several times have been in - triple digits.
People just don't like spam and have no respect for what amounts to a paid spammer. He needs to learn this for himself but I doubt that will ever happen because he appears to be a classic narcissist.
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Yes Roy Schestowitz is one of the 2 people behind Boycottnovell as well as other boycott sites. He is also connected to Groklaw where he poisons that site as well and he is a Netscape scout on Propeller where he has peoples accounts terminated if they disagree with his quite warped philosophy. He is one well financed and dangerous quack. Depending upon what side of the discussion you are on of course. The drones over in comp.os.linux.advocacy look upon Roy Schestowitz as some kind of God. Most people however think his tinfoil suit is on way too tight :)
If you want to HEAR Roy Schestowitz in action and get to judge for yourself how little he knows about the topics he discusses, just give a listen here: http://www.linux.com/feature/122470 D/L the mp3...That's Roy droning on and on until the moderator explains to Roy that he wanted to hear from someone else to start the conversation off. Bring a few cans of Jolt though because you will have a difficult time staying awake.
A few comments. Ad hominem attacks are generally not a good thing because it is far more mature to attack the subject rather than the messenger. However in this case, the messenger IS the subject so is it really an ad hominem attack? As for Schestowitz, he is obviously being compensated for his 'work' because according to his web site he is a PHD student which is quite time consuming in itself. Where does he get time, and motivation, to host various boycott sites, post thousands of messages to USENET, digg, Propeller and various other sites? This is literally a 24x7 task given the huge number of messages, comments etc. And if you read his messages in comp.os.linux.advocacy, you can see that these are very long winded with comments, reference urls (usually referring to one of his own blogs) and quite oddly formated text. The logical conclusion is that he is being paid, and that this is a well organized campaign which is being funded. Also it does not appear to be humanly possible to accomplish what he is doing in a given 24 hour period unless the person is not sleeping, not working and certainly not studying and preparing for a PHD program. FWIW he has just posted a message in comp.os.linux.advocacy calling this entire thread an attack on him by shills. To me it looks like people are on to his purpose and are starting to ask questions of him as to his real motives and he doesn't like that. He makes the same complaints on digg.com BTW where he claims the same 3 people are stalking him and modding him down. That doesn't explain why his ratings are generally in the - double digits and several times have been in - triple digits. People just don't like spam and have no respect for what amounts to a paid spammer. He needs to learn this for himself but I doubt that will ever happen because he appears to be a classic narcissist.