RE: Wikipedia CAD Marketing Shenanigans

From: <Richard>
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 21:48:00 EDT

No different from our politicians. Spin doctoring to the masses.

Richard B

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On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:

> A search for edits from the Autodesk domain returns a long list of
> Wikipedia editing activity, spread over several topics, with only a
> few
> related to CAD and AutoCAD. Some of the edits are about Autodesk
> products and are useful contributions to the Wikipedia project. Other
> edits feel more like a marketing operation than a sincere, objective
> contribution.>>

Says a lot for the practice of learning to make up your own mind.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint. <mailto:chrisw%40skypoint.com> com | this distance" (last words of Gen.

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