In March 26, 2008, was celebrated around the world the first Document Freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org/). Notice the site's name: Document Freedom dot org.
While refusing all around the world to participate in a celebration towards the promotion and usage of open standards, Microsoft even goes to the point of issuing a press release in Portugal against ANSOL's Document Freedom Day announcement.
Meanwhile, anonymous supporters of OOXML use Domains by Proxy registar in order to register a site with a very similar address of Document Freedom Day's. The OOXML support site is Document Freedom Day **dot com** and redirects to a well known astroturf site which pretends to be a community of OOXML supporters.
This technique is a redirection scam which, according to the explanation given by the Online Internet Institute, takes place
- when you go to one URL and are automatically transferred to another URL. It further explains that it
- doesn't always send you to a porn or gambling site and that
- it could be a scam to lure you to places you had never intended to go.
Which is clearly the case here: to confuse users who expect to check out the Document Freedom Day event page, and lure them into their own OOXML astroturf site.
