Microsoft Urged Linux Retaliation

Rossalina W Sanchez writes: "Yahoo is reporting that an internal Microsoft memo from August of 2000 urged employees to 'work underground' to hurt companies, like Intel, who support Linux. When will they learn that these memos always come back to haunt them ..."

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they did a very good job

[fabiolrs]

urged employees to 'work underground' to hurt companies...

they did a good job, they built WINDOWS XP!!!

And in a related note...

[dmccarty]

...justice officials also noted that an encrypted Microsoft memo read, "!seineew era sreenigne xuniL" and appealed to member of the open source community to help them decode the message.

Re:And in a related note...

[Drachemorder]

...justice officials also noted that an encrypted Microsoft memo read, "!seineew era sreenigne xuniL" and appealed to member of the open source community to help them decode the message. ... at which point, half of the developers created a distributed computing program to attempt to use brute-force to crack the code, while the other half worked on a decryption algorithm. This continued for several months without success, until a ten-year-old boy, who knew absolutely nothing about cryptography or computers, pointed out that the message was simply written backwards.

Re:And in a related note...

[sjwt]

and then they where all thrown in jail
for violating the DMCA..

Memo

[notaspy]

From: Bill Gates
To: All M$ Employees and Shills
Re: Anti-M$ Publicity

Kill Slashdot.
Fat bonus to whomever Slashdots those bastards.

xoxox
Bill

Probably...

[NorthDude]

I'd imagine the internal letters between linux developers on crippling microsoft are 100x worse.


Yes, but they are GPL'ed and everyone can use/modify them

This must be the reason why MS bashing post on Slashdot are so redundant, they are just different distros.

Poppycock!

[4of12]

Yahoo is reporting that an internal Microsoft memo from August of 2000 urged employees to 'work underground' to hurt companies, like Intel, who support Linux.

Well, that's simply preposterous!

I mean, <boost target="microsoft">how could one the worlds foremost respected software manufacturers, a company that literally spends billions on research and development specifically addressing customers needs for an integrated business experience based upon Microsoft Innovation® possibly stoop to such tactics?

I mean, give me a break, you <create_mud target="Linux"> DeCSS-hacking, copyright-infringing, intellectual property destroying, Linux zealots have some good points now and then but on this you're way off the mark!

Copyright © 2002 Microsoft Slashdot Posting Engine, All Rights Reserved. Not to be reprinted without permission.

Don't Worry!

[smoondog]

Don't worry! Its all OK. Geez, didn't you even read the article? See it says right here:

Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Kempin's memo was "irrelevant" because the company never acted on his ideas.

I knew this was another one of /.'s unwarranted rants.

-Sean

NEW MS MEMO

[Monkelectric]

Executive Memo, To all Employees and Personnel of Microsoft, NO MORE GODDAMN MEMOS! Signed, Steve Balmer (With Bill Gates hand up my ass like a puppet)

Opeating systems as women.

[Corporate Troll]

I prefer to say it in pictures .
Just too bad they left out BeOS and OS X.

emperor has spoken

[Anonymous Coward]

Sisth has spoken....all those who oppose Microsoft shall be crushed. bow to our master.

Re:disallowed?!?

[srobert]

"As a citizen of the UK I'm having difficulty understanding this whole US judicial process."
The main reason that our US system doesn't work is because our judges and attorneys don't wear proper little wigs such as you have in the UK. :)

Re:Not so bad...

[RedWolves2]

Yeah there is probably a memo about putting cover sheets on all TPS reports.

Re:Linux is a virus

[Corporate Troll]

I've been to College.... And I don't really get what you mean. Never went to the "ladies of pleasure", and I won't go there before I'm really completely desperate. Okay, granted, didn't get laid during college either :-)

Re:Yes, but...

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

They couldn't even find them. When you call Dell:

"But Mr. Dent, the Linux computers have been available in the local Dell retailer for the last nine months."

"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the computers were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the systems, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. They were on display in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"

All props to the late great Douglas Adams.

Fuzzy

Re:Intel!? What about OSDN?

[The Turd Report]

How many of the Trolls and Microsoft astroturfers here are actually on the payroll of MS?
What?!? I am s'posed to be getting a check from MS for doing all this? I better start making some calls about backpay...

Re: What about OS X?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the dumb and rich. Why else would they pay too much for the hardware?

Re:Linux is a virus

[UGF]

Cool. I offended a MacOS user with Mod powers. My work here is done :)