[FC-discuss] Microsoft Asks Free Culture for Astoturfers and Spammers (WTF)

[Fred Benenson]

As surprising as it might seem, Microsoft also supports Creative Commons:

http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft



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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Rich Jones <miserlou at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just got this, thought it was hilarious.
>
> Anybody feel like infiltrating Microsoft's PR team? It's fun getting paid
> to be subversive.
>
> Rich
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> Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM
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