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

[Rich Jones]

@Rob - the email address is attached in the original email - send them
an email if you're willing to give it a shot. I'd be really really
interested in what they're trying to pull.

R

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothing is surprising about it to me, hence my careful wording.
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 20/01/10 21:07, Fred Benenson wrote:
>> > As surprising as it might seem, Microsoft also supports Creative
>> > Commons:
>> >
>> > http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft
>> >
>>
>> What is surprising about that? They give money to the Apache Foundation
>> as well. Anything that doesn't threaten their interests. Microsoft are a
>> proprietary software company. Neither CC nor permissive licensing
>> threatens their ability to remove people's freedom to use software.
>>
>> But you'll notice they don't support the FSF.
>>
>> What *would* be surprising would be if News Corp. supported CC...
>>
>> - Rob (who gives both CC and the FSF money each month).
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