[Am-info] Goldfinger's Heirs

[Fred A. Miller]

"I can see the movie trailer now: Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 uncovers a 
secret slush fund that's being used to bribe world leaders and business execs 
so that they'll eschew Linux in favor of Windows -- software they don't want. 
Behind the scenes, Bill Gates (played by Mike Myers) secretly hands out piles 
of cash to greedy governments and corporate bigwigs, while his hairless cat 
Orlando plots to destroy Linux user groups by listening in on their meetings 
and trade shows. 

This might read like a Hollywood script gone sour, if not for a series of 
Microsoft deeds, beginning with a memo written last summer by a former 
Microsoft official named Orlando Ayala, then the head of worldwide sales. His 
missive put forth a corporate strategy to persuade governments not to forsake 
Windows for Linux. If deals were in jeopardy, Microsoft reps were to draw 
from a special slush fund to either discount or make Windows software 
available for free. "Under NO circumstances lose against Linux," Ayala 
wrote."

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/windows/story/0,10801,81664,00.html?nas=OS-81664

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