On 02/18/2013 09:04 PM, jonc wrote:
On 02/18/2013 01:59 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 03:31 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> In fact FOSS has no way to tell if the passionate advocates of
>> nonsense like Gnome 3 are actually in the pay of evil corporate
>> giants who want to see Linux destroyed and are deliberately
>> inventing the worst possible systems (as long as we are mentioning
>> things we can't know :-).
>
> Yes; astroturfing is always hard to spot. BTW, I saw another term for
> people who do that last night on TV: Cybershills. Has anybody else
> run across this term or is it new.
Are people actually paranoid enough to think someone is paying people to
praise Gnome 3?
Well, no. But I am not expecting anybody who is being paid for his works
not to praise his works. Now consider that RH is paying a lot of the
Gnome folks, and draw your own conclusions.
Ralf