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

[Ben Moskowitz]

I'm sure they didn't think twice—they probably had some low-level  
person looking for students in tech-oriented places to do some paid  
blogging. The people in charge of this initiative probably aren't even  
aware of the politics at play.

On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Elizabeth Stark wrote:

> I do find it somewhat surprising, and I'll tell you why. Unlike the  
> scenario where MS is donating to CC or Apache, here they're asking  
> free culture members to *blog* about MS software, which generally  
> goes counter to the philosophy of free culture in its proprietary  
> nature. But hey, maybe they'd be happy to hear what we have to say. ;)
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rich Jones <miserlou at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> @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.
> >
> > ~ ~ ~
> > thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog
> > work / http://kickstarter.com
> > sights / http://flickr.com/fcb
> > sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis
> > status / http://twitter.com/mecredis
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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