[Am-info] Microsoft Can't Stifle Linux

Fred A. Miller fmiller@lightlink.com
Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:15:21 -0400


"Competitors that Microsoft has identified and rallied successfully against=
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include AOL, Apple, IBM, Lotus, Borland, Novell, 3Com and, of course,=20
Netscape. Recently, CEO Steve Ballmer, in a 5,600-word "leaked" memo,=20
positioned Linux as Microsoft's enemy du jour. Is Linux really a threat to=
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Microsoft? And how should business users react to the news that Microsoft=20
paid SCO to settle what could have been a potential lawsuit over Linux=20
intellectual property?"

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,82323,00=
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Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft=AE.
We have no bugs in our software, Never!,=20
We do have undocumented added features,
that you will find amusing, at no added cost,=20
to you, at this time.