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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. 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