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

[Ben Moskowitz]

infiltration?

On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Elizabeth Stark wrote:

> Yup, got that impression as well, but it's still pretty funny...
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ben Moskowitz <benrito at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 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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