Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

MS Struggles to Discredit Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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.

2 of 723 comments (clear)

  1. Double standard by The+Turbinator · · Score: 1, Troll
    "MS Struggles to Discredit Linux"

    Gee, it's not like the Linux crowd has been trying to do this to Microsoft for the past 10 years or anything. ;p

  2. This is NOT a post from a M$ employee by jeff13 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The email is real. Let's get this straight as all the M$ poseurs who moderate and post daily on /. have already tried to tell us this email from Valentine is a hoax. Just to clue you in, refering to a journalists article as a hoax is slanderous at worst. Not that it has stopped M$ in the past.

    It's well known that M$ has been waging a war against anyone in thier market. An unfair war, the sort that gets you into a courtroom in front of a supreme court judge. They have called Open Source "communist" and a "cancer" on the industry. I kid you not (all reported on /. in the past).

    What we have is one of the richest companies on the planet using every weapon at thier disposale to destroy a grassroots, free, and humanistic movement. Open Source. And they do it with the rightious conviction that the IT market belongs to them and no one else. Ever.

    Those of you from M$ (or it's PR firm) posting here should do us all a favour and get a real job. A job where you can be proud of who you work with and what you do. Trust me, posting lies for your Corp. isn't one of them.