Microsoft attempts to hack Wikipedia

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24 Jan 2007, 3:51 pm

Here's the link:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/0 ... index.html

Is there nothing they won't stoop to ?? For shame, Bill, for shame ! !!

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24 Jan 2007, 3:57 pm

This kinda practice from ms doesn't surprise me anymore.

Just a shame that as an ocassional gamer ditching DirectX isn't feasible, otherwise I'd boycott them outright.

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24 Jan 2007, 4:10 pm

hmm, odd, i have a feeling it is people who are runing virtual machine. i think this because wasnt wikipedia made using freeosb or gnu?? i really dont know if a windows machine can hack a server running linux. but since i dont use linux i suppose its possible

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24 Jan 2007, 4:38 pm

doordoctor wrote:

It can be done. Trust me. :twisted:

According to Netcraft it runs on Linux with Apache....

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report ... ipedia.org

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24 Jan 2007, 4:51 pm

There was no "hack" attempt... M$ was trying to pay someone to submit corrections to an article on something open source. Anyone can edit wikipedia, the edit just has to go through a review process before the change takes place.

A Linux/Apache combo is either the 1st or 2nd most common web server out there.

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24 Jan 2007, 4:53 pm

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Ahhh, good ol' LAMP.

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26 Jan 2007, 2:52 am

Even in India we use LAMP everywhere.
linux/apache systems can be hacked from windows..but the probability of success is minuscule.

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27 Jan 2007, 7:39 pm

I dont think Microsoft tried to hack anything

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28 Jan 2007, 1:41 pm

How sad that a multibillion dollar company must pay some blogger to spread propaganda in a non-profit encyclopedia instead of simply making better products that speak for themselves.

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28 Jan 2007, 2:42 pm

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How sad that a multibillion dollar company must pay some blogger to spread propaganda in a non-profit encyclopedia instead of simply making better products that speak for themselves.

Their marketing budget is much larger than their R&D budget.

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28 Jan 2007, 3:11 pm

How disappointing...

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28 Jan 2007, 6:10 pm

Not surprising, but disappointing nonetheless. (And perhaps disappointing because it was unsurprising. I'm not sure.)

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28 Jan 2007, 9:43 pm

Meh. Microsoft is acting in their own self interest. Besides, Wiki is not completely infallible. Taking anything on the internet as the truth is kinda.....not wise.

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28 Jan 2007, 9:47 pm

I haven't heard anyone on Jelliffe. Am I the only one who considers him pretty much blameless? He was basically paid to do a review on what should be done, independant of what microsoft wanted, and MS couldn't see it before it was published. Am I correct?

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29 Jan 2007, 5:48 pm

Wikipedia is artificially under-representative in articles about commercial entities. Star Trek fanatics can edit pages about Trek. WrongPlanet members can edit articles about the autism spectrum. What makes them less biased than a commercial entity? The review process should be robust against abuses from either.

I say bring it on.

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31 Jan 2007, 3:59 pm

Jameson wrote:

Actually, it doesn't have to even be reviewed; the changes happen instantly.

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