Make Web Not War: Astroturf?

[Myles Braithwaite]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 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.

I went to one of their events a few years ago and had amazing
conversations about the open web. It was definitely worth going.

It was heavily sponsored by Microsoft but I wouldn't call it "high
quality M$ astroturf" (at least it wasn't as bad when Yahoo! had a
similar event in Toronto now that was some high quality astroturf).

Azure does support Linux VMs[1] and their web site is running on CentOS
and Apache (and because it's WordPress I would assume PHP and MySQL):

$ curl --head www.webnotwar.ca
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:44:40 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3
X-Pingback: http://www.webnotwar.ca/xmlrpc.php
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

[1]:
<http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/introduction-linux/>

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