Here are a couple of Tim's posts over at IV, which seem to have gotten the troll panties in a wad, with hilarious results. Take it away, Tim! (I hope you don't mind the repost to my massive audience of maybe 2 or 3 people!)
POST 1
Re: GL's "Clocks" confirms Snowshoes quote (ex: Not so fast... Was: Report from Denver)
There was some back and forth on Yahoo between "iv.flamer", who has repeatedly posted links to this blog*:
http://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-king-of-open-source/
and "a.insider" (another Y! Tardborio incarnation) about meeting after the hearing for drinks. One of them was gibbering about "flying out to Denver from La Guardia". The posts and accounts keep disappearing at such a rate that it's hard to keep track of them.
*You will note that this fellow Barney Finucane is another pal of "al3x Brown" and MS Bobblehead Doug Mahugh. You may also note that our pal Tardborio/Anonymous-Insider also appears there in the comments, as he has under every single article I have looked at recently (see the comments under the OSNews "article" that ChocoNutDancer posted about this morning).
Here is the 'aristippus' whose blog "iv.flamer" keeps linking to:
Gareth Horton aristippus303 / Gareth Horton
Here is the "bfinucane" thanks at the beginning of his post:
Barney Finucane bfinucane / Barney Finucane
Here is their pal Doug from MS:
Doug Mahugh dmahugh / Doug Mahugh
Here is our boy Alex:
Alex Brown al3xbrown / Alex Brown
and here is Alex's "replacement" for Groklaw trolling:
1. Whoshere_normal jlundstocholm Who new Groklaw could be so much phun? http://bit.ly/TZAjW
Here's a sample Tweet from Jesper:
<< PJ/Groklaw: You harmed us and our families. You harmed the public, and you will have to live with that judgment from us. "You", here, is me.>>
Here's another one:
<< @al3xbrown No censorship here - but it seems I am behaving better than you were :o).>>
and:
<< hmmm ... it seems I have worn Groklaw down.>>
and:
<< @dmahugh yes, it seems I'm getting the cold shoulder from Pam.>>
So it seems as if the SCO trolls and the OOXML trolls are... co-mingling.
Wasn't Causey also involved in this OOXML business?
Anyhow, there seems to be more to this, but I don't have the time to connect the dots, much less ascertain that there are indeed dots to connect.
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POST 2
Re: GL's "Clocks" confirms Snowshoes quote (ex: Not so fast... Was: Report from Denver)
The parent apparently caused a microscopic kerfuffle in the Twitterverse.
As breathlessly reported in the parent, unhinged Yahoo troll "iv.flamer" posted links to this blog post on Y! numerous times: http://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-king-of-open-source/
The post, by aristippus303 / Gareth Horton, is a reasonably humorous anti FOSS parody in which Ellison summons Stallman to explain how to make money on all the FOSS he now owns, and ends up having him shot. The one comment under the entry is from Ken Saborio in his 'anonymous-insider' incarnation. The post opens with: "With thanks to Barney Finucane (Twitter:bfinucane) for the inspiration". Looking at Barney's Twitter page revealed that he is a peer of not only the author of the anti FOSS parody (aristippus303 / Gareth Horton), but of OOXML troll Alex Brown/al3xbrown, who made a minor stink on Groklaw by being an objectionable little twat, and his "replacement" OOXML Groklaw troll Jesper/jlundstocholm, who says, "Who new Groklaw could be so much phun? http://bit.ly/TZAjW"
Tho other character appearing in all their lists is Microsoft's Doug Mahugh/ dmahugh
You may recall that the same little band of asshats (Gareth, Alex, Doug, Ken Saborio/A-I) were previously observed hanging around on Brown's blog whining about Groklaw and generally being the kind of twits that say stuff like:
<< I am afraid that we must differ in our approach to software, I believe that one should be paid for the extremely complex, time-consuming and intellectual capital-intensive process of creating it, not just for the support and services.
I am looking forward to the inevitable announcement of the open-sourcing of DB2, Tivoli, Cognos, Content Manager On Demand and the other crown jewels in the IBM software stable, as well as free mainframes all round to run the free open source software on zOS, which will of course, also be open source.
I am wondering how an entirely open-source software world will be funded though - any ideas on that? Oh, and don't forget the free mainframes and PCs all round - why should I pay for hardware if I don't have to pay for software, right?
Maybe via taxes which the government can redistribute fairly and equally amongst all the hardware and software vendors?>> - Gareth gibbering like an idiot at someone daring to question the wisdom of OOXML as a 'standard'.
and
<< I'd have thought Groklaw's readers might have cared about that -- though it is of course a source of endless wonderment to many, that the so-called supporters of openness that are found on Groklaw are so happy to cheer on an anonymously-fronted, heavily-censored site who funding is (so far as I can see) completely opaque! >> - Alex
and
**An attempt to serve a subpoena on PJ in the SCO case was unsuccessful, I'm not sure whether that is because she doesn't actually exist, or whether she chose to ignore it. Any argument that she, of all people, didn't know about it is obviously laughable.
www.forbes.com/.../...ech-enter-cz_dl_0213sco.html
Not really a respecter of the law, it seems. ** - Gareth
and
<<@Alex
You wrote: "So, for example, here's a simple question: where does the money come from?"
In case of the latest ODF propaganda, I'll venture to say Groklaw could be receiving some donations from Apple for each anti OOXML article.>> - A-I/Sarborio/zafile/etc
Having seen that discussion previously, then the same pack of tards involved in the Stallman post tweeting each other about their Groklaw forays, I was compelled to write the parent, in which I speculated:
"it seems as if the SCO trolls and the OOXML trolls are... co-mingling", pointing out that SCO troll Saborio is hanging out and conversing with OOXML trolls Brown and company.
Within no time, the parent provoked the aforementioned microscopic kerfuffle on Twitter. Apparently our boy Ken alerted his buddy Alex immediately upon seeing the post. Here are the various reactions from Alex, Gareth and Doug:
"aristippus303 wondering why my blog traffic for my Larry Ellison/Richard Stallman post has gone completely through the roof since Tuesday." -- Tuesday was when iv.flamer/Sarborio started posting links to it.
"aristippus303 blog traffic mystery solved - OS 'religion' site linked to it." -- wasn't linked to from here until yesterday, yet somehow "OS religion' site IV managed to spike traffic since Tuesday. Details smetails.
" al3xbrown@aristippus303 @dmahugh @jlundstocholm but they're onto our secret plot to rule the world http://is.gd/xxhf - let's jump planet" - links to parent. Sorry Alex, but plotting to troll Groklaw and acting like idiots doesn't quite add up to world domination.
"aristippus303@al3xbrown @dmahugh @jlundstocholm and the moon landings were filmed in my back yard. With JFK watching from his hideaway in the treehouse" -- Gosh Gareth, and here we just thought that you were merely an OOXML/anti FOSS troll who likes to imagine Ellison shooting Stallman and hangs out with the likes of Ken Saborio!
"aristippus303@al3xbrown I do feel a bit sorry for the respected BI analyst commenter on my blog getting drawn into this insanity" - well, Gareth, if you didn't want to drag Barney into it, why thank him for inspiring your Ellison shoots Stallman post in the very first sentence? And what 'insanity' are you referring to? Oh - being associated with a bunch of trolls and conspicuous asshats like Alex, Ken and Jesper. I can see how that might sully his rep.
The last quote is from Microsoft's Doug Mahugh:
"dmahugh@al3xbrown @aristippus303 @jlundstocholm OMG, they've caught WG4 members publicly "co-mingling"! That's just so .... scandalous"
Poor Doug - is he saying that Kenneth Saborio/Anonymous-Insider/zafile/etc is a WG4 member, or is he pretending that he can't parse simple English? Is it possible that the Lead Standards Professional on the Office Interoperability team at Microsoft can't comprehend English? Nah - Doug is just doing what comes naturally - misrepresenting, distorting, and generally being a mendacious arm waver.
At any rate, I found it hilarious that these idiots would blog and tweet about their tag team Groklaw OOXML trolling, hang out with a toxic netkook like Saborio, then act all shocked when people noticed and pointed it out.
Guys - try "email". If you had used "email" to discuss Groklaw trolling strategy and to cast aspersions at FOSS, etc, instead of Twitter and your blogs, then people might not have noticed and commented.
Ken - I command you to alert Alex et al of this post immediately!
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I find it amazing just how low these trolls will go, just for a few potential table scraps from the Ballmer compost heap.
