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Microsoft Found Guilty of Misleading Advertising
gtoomey writes "The UK Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints that Microsoft misled consumers by running advertisements claiming Linux is 10 times more expensive than Windows. The print advertisements used "independent research" to compare the cost of Linux on an expensive mainframe to Windows on a PC."
Ooh, you guys have some great ideas over there...
RIP act - nice! D-Notices to press - very handy! Fair Use - nonexistent! And I tell you what, these notes we've been taking on some of Blunkett's ideas, well Ashcroft's gonna love them!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
By my own similar method of comparison I can conclude Apples Mac OS X is 2000 times cheaper than MS server 2003*. * Mac OS X running on a dual G5 Xserve. MS sever 2003 running on a quad quantum cyberdine systems X-9000 with gold plated tri-lithium cooled case and diamond studded cup holder.
Ermm...given the exorbitant prices of Macs...I think the Apple machine is only about four times cheaper than the Microsoft one. Maybe five. =)
--LordPixie
You own Damn self perhaps.
Without "Lawyers" as a special breed and a distict language, The business of sorting out who is right and wrong would by necessity be conducted, not in latin, but in the same language as the people, who by all reckoning, are charged with understanding the law in the first place.
The purpose of law is to create equality.
The purpose of lawyers is to create priveledge for rich people.
Lawyers are an anathima to the law.
In criminal cases, the interest of freedom should be representated by an independant counter-prosector. The defendant should speak for himself or not as he chooses. But every defendant should have the same counter-prosecutor.
AIK