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Paid Microsoft Trolls

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Sunday September 21 2003, @03:43AM
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It seems microsoft or some PR group working for microsoft is paying people to troll on /.
Just look at this from a story on a LSH root explot ( a GNU replacement for OpenSSH ):

'Another week, another bug, another thread bashing Microsoft for software weaknesses.
When will Slashdot moderators *get it* ?

All software has bugs! Due to popularity, some software bugs are more actively sought that others.'

Whats wrong with that?

1) The story wasn't anything to do with microsoft. Microsoft have nothing to do with LSH, or OpenSSH.
The poster didn't read the story, the poster didn't understand the basics of the story.

2) It's a generic kind of statement that fits in on any microsoft bashing story. The fact it was used as a reply to the totally wrong story would seem to show that whoever wrote that wasn't the same person as whoever posted it.

3) Who would be pro-software bugs on /. anyway??
What kind of person would setup a user account on slashdot and make excuses for bugs in software unless they were paid to. When did you last see someone -defending- a bug in the linux kernel. People don't defend poor quality, they fight to fix it.

I conclude that microsoft has paid trolls on /. defending the evil empire against both justified and unjustified attack.

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  • Come on, why are you so negative? You can always find something positive in everything. Life would be boring if there were no bugs. Admins would have to make up problems to justify their existance (like the police do in places where there's no crime - I remember a story about local cops pursuing for hours a young punk who had stolen a car or something like that; they said it was like a training exercise for them). Programmers would have much less work to do - it's not like you could add an unlimited number