11.21.07
The Moderation Policy We Never Had
Due to a recent wave of personal attacks, mud slinging, and invocations of Godwin’s Law, comments matching particular patterns will enter the moderation queue and will be approved only if they contain no ad hominem attacks. The recent ad hominem attacks were not only directed at editors, but also at readers, which makes them unacceptable.
Never before have we deleted any comments and we don’t intend to delete past comments, either. However, recent misuse brought need for change. Criticisms are acceptable and very welcome. When they become personal, offensive, and totally off topic, they will not be made publicly visible. █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
eet said,
November 22, 2007 at 3:44 am
Can you please stop using ‘ad hominem’ and talk about ‘personal’ attacks, like any normal human being? Its starting to look really tacky by now.
Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an abusive Internet troll