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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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  2. Linux is a virus by wytcld · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Linux is a virus using human engineering as a vector to infect hardware whose natural symbiont is Windows.

    Linux is a woman who gives you the sex for free but then wants you to maintain her forever; Windows is the (sometimes diseased) whore who takes cash up front but then insists you cannot touch her in certain ways.

    Linux is a vehicle suited for the smart and poor; Windows is a better ride for the stupid and rich. So if Linux wins, the world ends up with more smart poor; if Windows, more stupid rich.
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    --
    "with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
  3. Re:So what by Morel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait?! Jeez, moderators, have you ever encountered the term 'sarcasm'? Look it up.

    The above post is, if anything, Funny and Insightful.

    Morel

  4. Make Them Build Space Shuttles by weycrest · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read on CNN or somewhere that Microsoft had enough
    cash now ($43b) to build 20 space shuttles. Well
    that ought to be the punishment! Make them build 20
    shuttles and get us to Mars. Though I wouldn't want
    to fly in ne shuttle running any NT software ;o) Give me those 60's Apollo computers any day over 'doze

    http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap15fj /c ompessay.htm

  5. FUDgePacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't forget to visit this NYT forum where billy's paid2post ?pr? WhoreDoggIEs have been/are MiSleading uninformed folks for over 4 years now. nothing GNU about that.

  6. Re:So what by NineNine · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So then a few hundred years ago, you would've argued in favor of slavery because it was legal? A hundred years ago would you have been in favor of women not being able to vote?
    You're the racist, sexist troll here, buddy. Not me.

  7. Re:So what by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Um. Whatever. Go back to troll school, you need more practice.

    Not all laws are good. That doesn't mean I dislike the good ones.

  8. infiltration by AeiwiMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    That would explain the many pro-microsoft comments
    on slashdot.org

  9. Re:Sending memos to Bernie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bernie Ebbers probably has a couple of those on his double-wide.