From the Dark Side--Microsoft tries to pay for Wikipedia Edits

Microsoft offered to pay blogger Rick Jelliffe to try to edit certain entries on an open source document standard in the community based online encyclopedia Wikipedia to be more favorable to Microsoft according to this AP article. The unethical event never happened and Microsoft claims it was just trying to set the record straight. Maybe, but a more ethical approach would have been to write and post a white paper on the topic and have it linked from Wikipedia's discussion of the article according to its founder, Jimmy Wales. Hmmm...well, just remember that the CEO of the world's biggest convicted illegal monopolist once stated publicly that he didn't know what a monopoly is. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox]