[Sheflug] Microsoft attacks Linux at CeBIT (BBC News)

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

In case anyone hasn't seen this from BBC News Online, here's an extract from
an article reporting from CeBIT. Full article at:
	http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1240000/1240626.stm

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Mutant penguins 

Microsoft is unhappy enough about Linux's newly acquired respectability
to have produced a poster attacking it. 

It shows the Linux mascot, Tux the Penguin, mutated into several outlandish
creatures: an illustration, it says, of the dangers of relying on a system
built by an often fractious community of independent programmers. 

"If Microsoft is targeting Linux, that only validates it," Ransom Love
commented. 

Love said Linux would expand the IT market in less-developed countries. 

"It offers massive computing power at a fraction of the traditional cost. 

"Linux will enable the rest of the world to get online" he said. 

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