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Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money

UnderScan writes "After researching this material for about three years, Tom Adelstein tracks Microsoft's anti-Linux lobbying money: "Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government. On the cover of a recent edition of VarBusiness Magazine dated June 26, 2005 the editors presented a large headline which read: 'It's A Microsoft World. Five years after running afoul of the Feds, Microsoft is as powerful as ever. Pushing a platform instead of products could make it stronger still. Why nothing seems to stop it.'""

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  1. In other news... by gwayne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tom Adelstein discovers VarBusiness Magazine owned by Microsoft.

  2. Hmmmm by Vonotar82 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's only a matter of time before MicrSoft seceeds from the Union, forming a technocracy that will rule the internet and unleash Clippy v2.0, the Terminator edition. Unstoppable, blob-like, indefatigable, only Mr. Peabody and the Way Back machine can stop it now. May the Gods have mercy on our souls.

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    "I drank WHAT?!"--Socrates
  3. monkey! by Paul+Rose · · Score: 5, Funny

    who else read as 'attack monkey' ?

    1. Re:monkey! by zakkie · · Score: 5, Funny

      We're more used to it being referred to by its name: Steve Ballmer... ;-)

    2. Re:monkey! by zymurgy_cat · · Score: 2, Funny
      I can see Clippy now:

      Hi! It looks like you want to use your attack monkey! What would like to do?
      • Permanently scar Linus' face
      • Urinate on a copy of the GPL
      • Throw razor sharp Linux CDs at poor children
      • Use the "fling monkey feces" wizard
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  4. Re:Hmm... by wetdirtmud · · Score: 2, Funny

    The new linux campaign... They should really start using Linux in the White House. The catchy slogan: Even the President can install it!

  5. Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Soon they'll announce linux has ties to terrorist!

  6. Counterattack Plan... by Blackbrain · · Score: 3, Funny

    We could probably get Tova Torvalds an advisory position with IndyMedia...do you think it would help?

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  7. and you know what? by ChiGodOfKarma · · Score: 2, Funny

    They also control the black helicopters, Flying Saucers, and it seems that if you dig deep enough you find out that the Anal Probe(tm held by MS) was actually worked on in the late 70's by none other than Bill Gates himself. His new secret projects are being tested in a certain prison in Cuba as we speak. Anal Probe De-Virginater 2.0. or maybe you guys need to lighten up...

  8. "Attack Monkey?? LOL" by neurokaotix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only person that reads all comments before posting one myself? Geesh.

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    "...if people respected copyright more, like you guys do with the GPL so religiously, [the DMCA] wouldn't be necessary."
  9. Re:The Golden Rule. by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a golden crayon. Can I make a rule?

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  10. Re:I don't get it by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried switching the family over to JSF attack jets over the summer
    vacation and the wails of terror, utter anxiety, and lack of any flight training whatsoever was enough to crash the jets straight into the ground.
    So why all the troubles?
    Afterall JSF pilots love to tell stories of how the JSF is so
    much better than a donkey cart with a broken wheel and they would never try to fly across the ocean in one.
    My conclusion after seeing real people in a real average Jane setting
    crash and burn after being dropped in the pilot's seat midair is that the JSF advocates are just plain lying
    because the JSF is really a step backwards for people used to using
    technology several centuries behind what it should be.

    To make this short and simple, virtually NOTHING worked properly in the JSF.
    Telling the JSF to turn left and swatting it with your hand did nothing, it would not listen.
    Stuffing oats and barley into the fuel tank did not refuel it. In fact, the jet technician said I caused 100s of 1000s of $$$ worth of damage!
    I tried to nail a proper shoe onto the jet turbine, but the jet-grade aluminum just gouged.
    I applied salve to where we attached the harness, but the weird metallic lesions would not heal.
    We then took the JSF to a vetrinarian, but he said he did not treat JSFs.
    I was unable to tie the reins up to the hitching post.
    And it goes on and on for pages,but the bottom line is that the JSF lasted about 3 days in my house before I ditched it and went back to
    my donkey cart with a broken wheel.

    Conclusion is that the JSF is a birds nest of confusion. The JSF seems
    like it might be good until you actually try and fly it and then it
    shows it's ugliness, slowness and instability.

    Why on earth ANYONE would use the JSF for personal transportation is beyond me.

  11. Oh the internet by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Where men are men, women are women, and young 14y old girls are FBI agents"

    ...or something like that.

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    It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
    Be yourself no matter what they say
  12. What about the terrorist money? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft is funded by terrorists who use their software to plot devilish crimes. (Windows 2K in fact.)

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    Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
  13. Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money? by suitepotato · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this another new monster from Kingdom of Loathing?

    Microsoft defending itself against a competing platform? Sending attack money out? No, say it ain't so.

    (insert your favorite eyes rolling emoticon here)

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  14. Bizarro universe... by Rufus88 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this come kind of joke?

    It must be:

    32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website [...]