http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/an_interesting_offer.html
Note that the person writing that appears entirely on the level, by the way. Heck, he posted openly about Microsoft asking him about it.
Personally, I've found getting NPOV on [[OpenOffice.org]] a goddamn nightmare, and I'm a fan. There's something about open-source and free-software related articles that attracts REALLY OBNOXIOUS partisans, who don't understand NPOV and don't care - they see Wikipedia as another platform for advocacy. [[Internet Explorer]] is a carefully written NPOV article, most free-software articles have fallen entirely to the advocates. This is a bad thing.
If you want to check editing on the subjects, by the way, please remember not to bite the newbies!
- d.
Personally, I've found getting NPOV on [[OpenOffice.org]] a goddamn nightmare, and I'm a fan. There's something about open-source and free-software related articles that attracts REALLY OBNOXIOUS partisans, who don't understand NPOV and don't care - they see Wikipedia as another platform for advocacy. [[Internet Explorer]] is a carefully written NPOV article, most free-software articles have fallen entirely to the advocates. This is a bad thing.
Yes, it's unfortunate the NPOV is so often taken to mean "don't just say bad things about the subject". While we're less likely to get sued for being to positive in an article, it is just as un-neutral.