Re: [vox] FWD: How Linux helps Microsoft

["R. Douglas Barbieri" <doug@dMAPSooglio.net>]

Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:58:58AM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
>
> > Here is an excerpt:
> >
> > "Microsofties say they were more worried about Linux a few years ago, 
> > when it was a truly free program, spreading on its own, from user to 
> > user, like a virus. Now that Linux costs real money, and is sold by 
> > buttoned-down blue suits from IBM and Novell, Microsoft feels more 
> > confident. Microsoft has beaten these guys, badly, in operating system 
> > wars before."
> Why read the rest, when it is amazingly clear that the author hasn't
> the beginnings of a clue? Neither sentence is even remotely connected
> to reality, though there are clear connections to apparently
> successful MS FUD.
I sent him this link:

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag=lh

It says it all. :-)

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