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Pedro
June 10th, 2009, 02:45 PM
-{ Quote: "Alex Brown, the convenor of the OOXML BRM, has been editing Wikipedia's article on ODF. That strikes me odd, like finding out Steve Jobs had been editing the Microsoft Zune page. Some things are simply inappropriate. It puzzles me why Wikipedia allows it, frankly.

If you read the talk page on ODF, you'll see that there are others there trying mightily to spin the article on ODF more negatively than is factual. And such rudeness! Plenty of smears against Groklaw too, I couldn't help but notice. It does seem to me that there is a marked increase in what I view as a concerted submarine marketing effort. Some of it is subtle. Most of it is not. A fair measure of it is mean-spirited. Some of it is lies, pure and simple.
(...)" }-
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009061001520015

ODF Lies and Whispers (http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/06/odf-lies-and-whispers.html)

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Pinga
June 10th, 2009, 03:28 PM
Microsoft bashing lifts the spirits :P

Related: Microsoft Bing rehosts Wikifiddling as 'Reference' material

'But you're not actually transported to a Wikipedia page. You're transported to a reproduction of a Wikipedia page on Microsoft's own site, where it's labeled as "Reference" material.'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/bing_and_wikipedia/

Pedro
June 10th, 2009, 03:47 PM
That's actually referred in the Groklaw article. It ends with the
-{ Quote: "Will they correct the articles, when FUD is removed or just continue to serve up their own versions of truth?" }-
part.