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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 ..."
The real question is when will people figure out these leaks are fake.
This is sure to burn some karma, but what the hell...it needs to be said:
When will Slashdot stop drooling over every single god damn "leaked memo" that becomes public? Who cares about a stupid e-mail that basically puts into words what everyone already knew? What you're talking about is COMMON BUSINESS PRACTICE. Undermining competition is what keeps businesses alive...it's been that way since the beginnings of capitalist economics. Get over it, people...and move along - there sure as hell isn't anything to see here.
i can't even remember when this crap was actually news.
Linux on the Desktop hahahaha...
I dont want Linux to be used by average joe,
now i can tell everyone that i boycot MS and that
i cannot help them with there computer problem.
Now if average joe would be running Linux or something like that
then i would be needed helping out Neighbours, Familie and Friends every week, bah! you selfish person!
$ ssh -l myadminacount ipofneighbour
password:
Yes, but... (Score:2)
by TechnoLust on Tuesday May 14, @03:11PM (#3519127)
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From the article: Red Hat chief technology officer Michael Tiemann said computer makers had rebuffed his attempts in recent years to pre-install the Linux operating system on their machines because they feared Microsoft's response.
I don't think this is a valid argument from the manufacturers. If Dell or Gateway or Compaq started preloading Linux on their machines, what is microsoft going to do? Say, "OK, we aren't selling windows licenses to Dell anymore." I don't think so. Especially since that is where they get their huge user base
Dell DID sell boxes with Linux on them. But you know what... NOBODY BOUGHT THEM! Choice has nothing to do with it. There IS choice. The simple fact is that MS's products meet the needs of most of the people out there at a reasonable price.
Unfairly? Says who? I didn't know that business was about being "fair". Silly me. I thought it was about maknig a profit.
mod above: troll
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What, specifically, made your parent post (my grandparent post) a troll? The poster was expressing his/hers opinion or, maybe (I couldn't tell) came with a satiric comment. It may not be objective, you may disagree (I certainly do). But it's NOT a troll. Moderators who think like that pollutes
I love Slashdot... it's so full of half-thoughts and knee-jerking.
The denizens of Slashdot declare that MS's monopoly is wrong. At the same time, MS is dead, and Linux has taken over.
Funny, I thought that the definition of a monopoly is NO competition.
So which is it kids? Is there a monopoly, in which case Linux is an abject failure, or is Linux a success, in which case there really is no monopoly?