crunchnotes.com — Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee, apparently didn?t like my post about Microsoft?s attempt to pay a blogger to make Wikipedia changes on their behalf, so he vandalizes the Wikipedia entry on TechCrunch to?prove a point? What point? That he?s an ass?My respect for Microsoft just took a very, very deep hit. I?m not sure if/how [?]
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jblanchJan 25, 2007
I dont see how microsoft should lose respect, if he did something wrong then the company will take care of it. The guy is only pulling the "i lost my respect for MS" card because he wants them to take ANOTHER hit on top of anything they're going to get. What REAL importance is it that somebody wrote something on your Wiki entry? Dont you realize that any shmoe could do this and there would be no-where near the same reaction? Don't preach about "being mature" and "adult thing to do" over something thats not even an issue.
michaeldotnetJan 25, 2007
You could argue that Mike is squashing Dare's freedom of speech rights. Dare posted a line /with references/ on the wikipedia entry. He didn't post "Mike is an idiot." He posted a legitimate concern. I for one enjoy Techcrunch, but this really is blowing it out of proportion. Call me when MS uses the DMCA to get a post removed, or sends Mike's ISP a C&D.
gotamdJan 25, 2007
Yeah, he hardly vandalized the page. I don't see any non-factual information there. Arrington's just pissed off. The Digg headline for this story is nice and biased too.
a7anJan 25, 2007
Dare Obasanjo "attacked" techcrunch by adding factual information to the wikipedia entry. Wow we can't let that happen now can we.I think Dare's post was effective in making his point. How does MS go about fixing inaccurrate or incomplete information about their technology on wikipedia without being able to directly modify it? Mike A. suggested MS should write a whitepaper about it and wait for the wikipedia entries to be fixed by strangers which is pretty unrealistic. To make an example, Dare modified techcrunch's wikipedia entry to include accurate info that places techcrunch in a bad light to see how he would deal with it. However, once the tables were turned against Mike, he blew it out of proportion and cried a river. QQ
hitchhiker90Jan 25, 2007
I'll be the first to ask, who the f**k are you man? Just another f**k with a blog bashing others? Oh, just trying to make a name for yourself and get your 15 minutes of fame. Well contratu-f**ken-lations. Your whiney bitchness made it to the front page of digg. Luckily I never heard of you before, and now I know never to read your worthless s**t again.