Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD

Several people sent in variations on this: "Kind of ironic to see that the the site, dubbed WeHaveTheWayOut from Microsoft and Unisys runs on an Apache Web server powered by FreeBSD. This could have made a great April Fools joke, unfortunately for Microsoft, you can verify it by using Netcraft." This is a follow-up to the original story a few days ago. Other readers noted that there's already a WeHaveTheWayIn site up. Wehavethewayout.com was returning Apache headers yesterday; today it's returning "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0", so it appears they've dumped FreeBSD in a hurry, or maybe just changed the headers.

Comments

Re:They've already changed the HTTP headers

[linzeal]

Um, uploading a custom 404 page is hardly brain surgery. I thought microsoft did that to all their sites, people were bitching that lots of places were returning IIS-style http error pages even when running freebsd during the hotmail conversion project.

[Let's see who else is in the netblock...]

[cscx]

Shall we?

www.anna-nicole-smith-nude.com
www.ex-microsoft .com
www.cannabis.com
www.dykesworld.de
www.sex hit.com
www.germanparts.com

Don't know about that last one... but I'm not going to visit it.

Plus, slashbots, get this: THE IP CHANGED from 198.63.57.204 to 130.94.214.143. They're both hosted by Verio. Maybe that's all they had available at the time, before they moved to a dedicated server. Ooh, here's another idea: who the fuck cares? It's like saying that since the Zone runs Linux on their stats page... Lynch them! Lynch them!

Re:Great riposte

[pubjames]

To respond to myself:

One way I think the site could be improved is to have a list of big companies that have converted to Linux/BSD recently. We could make a 'best of Linux users' listing from the following pages:

SUSE ccasestudies

Lufthansa

RedHat casestudies

Oracle, Amazon, Merrill Lynch

IBM case studies

Shell, NCSA


HP Case studies

Dreamworks, Boeing

I guess NASA should go on the list somewhere.

Any more?

Re:OS switch

[BorgDrone]

5900/tcp open vnc

What about win2k's own remote administration application ? , not good enough for MS ?

Re:It's really not that ironic

[Dephex Twin]

It's odd that there's a seemingly mixed attitude on Slashdot: One says that Microsoft is an evil beast bashing the world to conform to its ways, and another is a mocking when Microsoft isn't bashing people to conform to their ways. Which do you want?

Microsoft *is* bashing people to conform to their ways-- that's what the whole "wayout" site is about. They are being mocked now because they are bashing people to do things the MS way when even they aren't doing it themselves.

In any case, even if there were a mixed attitude, that should be no surprise. There are a lot of different people who post to /.

mark

MSN still hasn't found thewayout

[Lars T.]

At least not for the homepages.

For those too lazy to click the link, fear a hidden goatse or find netcraft slow at the moment:
The site homepages.msn.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) ApacheJServ/1.1.2 on Solaris.

Re:Does Microsoft Care

[Satai]

Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who drives a Toyota? I wouldn't.

That's a bit of an understatement. Maybe a better statement would be "Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who bashes Toyotas as being unreliable, expensive and unsafe, but sends his kids to school in a Corrolla?"

prove of freebsd server !!!

[abcjerry]

ok this is it !!! you can download some unix binary files like the command 'ls' http://www.wehavethewayout.com/bin/ls there are some more, it looks like microsoft was to stupid to configure a freebsd server hahaha microsoft sucks bigtime !

or budweiser girls, and no camera :(

[hawk]

>highly-paid Pepsi shill Britney Spears was
>photographed with Coca Cola products

about 10 years ago, our vegas brewing club (snafu) attended a lot of chili cookoffs, which generally benefitted some charity or another. We'd take contributions, and only tended to share our beer with those that had donated at our booth.

At one of these, our president, who was, uhh, outgoing, even when sober (if that ever happened :), noted the Bud girls passing by. You know, the ones with the sprayed on dresses that barely make it to their thighs, accompanied by a burly bodyguard or two. "Hey, you want to come over here and try a *real* beer?"

Believe it or not, they did, though their bodyguard was a bit uneasy. And not a single one of us had a bloody camera!!!!!

*sigh*

hawk

Re:Well of course!

[jsse]

Of course they were running on unix themselves! They were locked in, they were unable to stop paying for the expensive so called unix 'experts'. They were *hoping* we could ALL find a way out TOGETER.

One of my colleague who is an UNIX guru, but has absolutely no knowledge in Microsoft, nothing really, but he decided to find a job in Microsoft. He even told the truth to the interviewer.

To our surprise he was hired at about US$75,000/year. A year later we found that he *still* has very little knowledge about Micosoft's products, and he was very holding back when we asked him what does he do in Microsoft.

So Microsoft pays US$75,000.00 a guy to do nothing? I guess not. :D