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MS Struggles to Discredit Linux
PrimeNumber writes "The Register has this interesting story about a supposedly "leaked" email from Microsoft Windows division VP Brian Valentine. Although half of it is admittedly suit/rah rah speak, the interesting nuggets mention use of Microsofts "Sun and Linux insiders"."
The whole email is pretty funny actually.
From: Brian Valentine
Sent: Wed 1/2/2002 1:14 PM
To: WW Sales, Marketing & Services Group
Subject: Me again -- Linux updates (part 2)
Our elite PI squad has managed to break into the linux infrastructure! Now, all their source code base are belong to us! With their source code, we can now see how they do things. This infiltration of linux will let us defeat linux, once and for all, from the inside! All we must do now is figure out what the heck all that code means... We would know already, but Visual Basic wasn't able to open their source code files for some reason.
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
Perhaps they should ban the cut and paste buffers if they want to prevent this sort of thing.
Lowmag.net
So what's he running now, Sendmail?? heheh
What a tard. You can't track if someone cuts and pastes it into a new e-mail. Then again, I guess we *are* talking about MS employees.
-brain
Puts on bad German accent (like on the one from Hogan's Heroes): "Dear troops. There iz a threat to us out thar called Leeenox. It is insidious; it may be in your very server room right now! Go out! eradicate the Leeenox Scum! Use our informants to bring zee traitors to heel! "If you forward or leek thiz email, you will be summarily sent to the Eastern Front!"
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
"PS: I used to run Exchange -- so if you think I am not tracking this message, think again. Don't forward it! "
That line would be enough motivation for me to leak that msg.
This sounds like a big scary task force of Windoze suits equipped with page after page of FUD, moving into every client they have and investigating (read: Spying) their enterprises usage. Snoop out the linux and squash it dead.
MS Suit: and this box over here, what's it running?
Joe, IT Manager: It's a debian box I built that works as a router, jabber server, and sendmail server for our engineering staff
MS Suit: (Scratches some notes in little black book of infidels) Ah, I see...
Replacing his sunglasses
We will be in touch
Snaps his little black book closed and walks out
We dance to all the wrong songs.
--Refused.
What's next, the Groundhog Memo?
The Thanksgiving letter?
Inquiring minds want to know! :-)
Are you kidding? We are 1337 Lunix Kommunity; our many eyes and unbelievably large wangs cannot be deceived. If something like this had been real, there would be absolutely no chance at all that it was meant to end up on the FrontPage of Slashdot.
... new TSP role-based database ...
I don't know about Windows, but TSP is good for cleaning walls.
Mmmm... TSP.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Deep inside Slashdot headquarters......
CmdrTaco: Come on guys this is BS. We needs some
news today. Isn't ANYTHING interesting going on?
Do I have to do EVERYTHING myself???
[CMDRtaco@debianbox] telnet expoitable.sendmailbox.ru
220 exploitable.sendmailbox.ru ESMTP Sendmail 8.6
HELO aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa(250 times)
250 exploitable.sendmailbox.ru Hello debianbox.slashdot.org pleased to meet you
mail from: bvalentine@microsoft.com
250 2.1.0 bvalentine@microsoft.com... Sender ok
rcpt to: news@theregister.co.uk
250 2.1.5 news@theregister.co.uk... Recipient ok
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
To: WW Sales, Marketing & Services Group
Subject: Me again -- Linux updates
etc...............
Oldest Troll trick in the book.
Yeah, you're right, if you assume clueless users.
We're talking about sales people here.
Haha.. Then the employees should just copy and paste the tex.... oh wait... 99999999 people above me have already said the same damn thing. I suppose I'll refrain from saying it again.
Which are?
Well, for one, web-based "remote systems administration"* out of the box.
*in as much as Back Orifice is an admin tool.
that makes me think it actually is real is the following:
"We have the best d*mn sales force in the world backed by the best engineers in the world."
Only a marketroid would think that the salesmen are more important than the engineers.
When I first saw the Ballmer video, I thought to myself:
"Wow, that has been professionally faked." - I did not believe it was true for a long time.
I don't see anything in this email that beats Big Boss Ballmer in childishness, sorry.
And usually the big boss is acting more professional than the smaller execs, so maybe this email just sounds too professional to be true.
Maybe the real emails go like this:
Give it up for me!
IIIII LLLLLLOOOOVVVVEEE TTTHHHHIIIISSSS COMPANY
Yeah!
Their like corrupt Ferengi, but the difference is that even Ferengi have rules they play by.
-
Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
Just my $.02 - this guy wouldn't have made it through college english. I may well be begging for an onslaught of "you're being picky", but his grammar is horrible. This can't be for real ... but, wait ... no, I understand now - he used Word to grammar/spell check his e-mail!
Ah ... the dawning light of understanding. ;)
MS Suit: and this box over here, what's it running?
Joe, IT Manager: It's a debian box I built out of spares, and it basically runs everything. File services, web, FTP, mail, database, legacy apps, a few instant messengers, name service, firewall, proxy, virus filter, the lot. I haven't had it off-line in the last year. The other boxes are there to make the server room look good and keep the managers and accountants happy. I think some of them run game servers.
MS Suit: Could you repeat that, please? I can't write that fast. What's in an `F' teepee? And you reckon it's poxy? Why's that?
Joe (rolling eyes): We are out of touch.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing