Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
>
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> | The States' remedy hearing opened in DC yesterday, and States attorney
> | Steven Kuney produced a devastating memo from Kempin, then in charge of
> | Microsoft's OEM business, written after Judge Jackson had ordered his
> | break-up of the company. Kempin raises the possibility of threatening
> | Dell and other PC builders which promote Linux.
> |
> | "I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with
> | anti-Linux. ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to
> | Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases
> | ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which Microsoft
> | enriched the English language in the first trial. Unlike those two, this
> | is not contested.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Earlier memos described that it was "untenable" that a key Microsoft
> | partner was promoting Linux. Kuney revealed that Dell disbanded its
> | Linux business unit in early 2001. Dell quietly pulled Linux from its
> | desktop PCs in the summer of 2001, IDG's Ashlee Vance discovered
> | subsequently, six months after we heard Michael Dell declare his love of
> | Linux on the desktop the previous winter.
> |
> | Compaq was also mentioned in other memos, with Microsoft taking the line
> | that OEMs should "meet demand but not help create demand" for Linux.
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19
microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
>
> Keep this in your bookmarks. When the Microsoft apologists and trolls
> enter the room, just pass this on.
BWAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!
So when Michal Dell$ woman went public and claimed no desktop linux
demand, he was in fact lying.
Micoshaft had their hand up Michal Dell$ woman's bum and animating
his words.
Michal Dell$ woman was merely helping micoshaft 'meet demand
but not help create demand' for Linux by overpricing Linux boxes.
I think any Linux customer that bought
such machines (including Lenov$ customers?)
has the right to sue Dell$ (and Lenov$) for every penny they got
until those companies are brought to their knees.
Of course Micoshaft should pay double whatever these companies
are forced to pick up.
In EU it could happen, they have strict laws about
companies setting out with criminal intent to distort markets.
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