Microsoft Astroturfing Exposed BIG TIME

In an article I wrote called Did Bill Gates Invent Linux and Has He Erased the Evidence? I felt I presented evidence where articles once written by legitimate journalists exposing Microsoft's dirty tricks now redirect you to different articles favorable to Microsoft.

I was surprised to see a number of comments attributing code embedded in web pages to link rot. OK, so I showed another example that required one to go to the Way Back Macine to find a damaging article called How Microsoft Got its OS Declared an "Open System" and wound up in Government. We found embedded code redirecting articles in the web archives. We suggest that's an attempt to rewrite history.

Again, comments mentioning "link rot" wound up on sites like "OSNews". I even got an email from Doc Searls saying he thought link rot had a lot to do with it. In the face of some overwhleming evidence, we find people still "in denial".

Hey, I even showed the code implanted in the pages redirecting links to favorable Microsoft articles. Now, we have a blatant example.

With apathy and inertia will you read this little blurb and do nothing? If so, then the pervasive disinformation machine in Redmond will have worked again.