London Stock Exchange begins migration to Linux-based trading platform (ComputerworldUK)

> I would politely suggest that you take your appologist comments, FUD and Astroturfing somewhere else. LWN tries to be factual, and unbiased.

And it succeeds, in both cases; not only in the articles, but also, for the most part, in the comment threads. And part of the reason it succeeds in comment threads is the variety views represented by the commenters. There are two sides to every story, and in LWN, you will usually see the 'other' side presented fairly somewhere in the comments (even in stories involving companies viewed by most of the community as 'bad guys', such as Microsoft), if only sometimes by a devil's advocate in order to spark informed discussion. This is a good thing: uniform 'group-think' is the enemy of neutrality.

Anyway, the point of this is that accusing anyone who posts a comment in support of Microsoft of 'astroturfing' (i.e. being paid by Microsoft) is not only probably untrue, but also pretty counter-productive if your goal is informed discussion. Having all sides of the story represented is a good thing, even the sides you don't happen to agree with.