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

["Perry Ismangil" <nospam [at] fdgroup.com>]

On 25 Mar 2001, at 21:53, Chris J/#6 wrote:

I agree with Ransom Love, and soon MS will publish a detailed 
comparative document detailing the shortfalls of Linux, so we'll 
have highly paid testers poking at Linux, and a well organized list 
to improve Linux on!
 
> 
> 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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> 
> Chris...
> 
> 
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