Make Web Not War: Astroturf?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:20:02AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> After someone mentioned it to me I checked out http://www.webnotwar.ca
> 
> It looks very interesting .... until you get to the bottom of the page:
> 
> *We are a community of open tech enthusiasts. We love everything open: Open
> Standards, Open Source, and Open Data.*
> 
> *If you have built something awesome or would like to get involved, please
> reach out to us - we are always up for making new friends.*
> 
>  *Make Web Not War is powered by People & Code, Idea Notion, Microsoft
> using WordPress on Windows Azure - and we love it.*
> 
> 
> 
> I've never known anyone to "love" Microsoft products, especially nobody who
> claims to "love everything open". No mention of Linux, Apache, BSD, etc.
> 
> And then... look at the copyright on the website.
> 
> Pfft.
> 
> Then again... does anyone here know the people there? I'm happy to be
> proven wrong. But on the surface this looks like some high quality M$
> astroturf.

Wow that wesite seems so self contradictory.

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