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Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Money

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the green-paper-trail dept.

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. Hmm... by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government."

    Whether this influence is actually good for Microsoft remains to be seen.

  2. Following... by halber_mensch · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Did anyone else read "Following Gates' Linux Attack Monkey"???

    At first I thought this was a biography of Ballmer...

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  3. Oops! Misread the headline by panzerboy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's a shame, really, as "Following Bill Gates' Linux Attack Monkey" would have been a much more interesting story.

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