On 02/18/2013 12:04 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?
I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm not. If there's astroturfing
going on (and I'm not saying that there is) it's either being done by
Gnome devs or by known advocates using fake names to make it look like
various random Linux users are praising Gnome 3.