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Microsoft Urged Linux Retaliation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the interesting-way-to-treat-customers dept.

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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  1. they did a very good job by fabiolrs · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

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  2. And in a related note... by dmccarty · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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.

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  3. Memo by notaspy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Kill Slashdot.
    Fat bonus to whomever Slashdots those bastards.

    xoxox
    Bill

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  4. Probably... by NorthDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Poppycock! by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!


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  6. Don't Worry! by smoondog · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  7. Opeating systems as women. by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 3, Funny

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