__/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 13 June 2007 03:28 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> [Suddently it's gone]
>>
>> Microsoft May Be Forced to Alter Vista
>
> That same story is on two other sites, a news site and a Blog. Both are
> offline. Bizarre.
I could view the page (with the text and everything), but suddenly it seemed
to have refreshed and the article was gone. I could not bring it back.
A few months ago, someone who lurks in COLA E-mailed me this:
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| You probably know about this already. And sorry for the lousy scan
| quality.
|
| What is more interesting however, is the fact that this article,
| which mentions LINUX en passant, is nowhere to be found on the New
| York Times archive. All other articles published by the same author,
| Thomas Crampton, in the last few days, are easily downloadable.
|
| Could it be that Mighty$oft sent some message or did some calls to
| the New York Times to let them know that they were not at all pleased
| with this rather bad news for them. Imagine, if the masses in the US
| suddenly realized that such a cheap PC could never be sold here
| simply because Windows alone costs almost 400 dollars. Even if
| people usually do not learn much at school, one thing they are
| normally good at is adding figures. This all does definitely not
| smell good for the Gates-Ballmer "duumvirate".
|
| Thought you might want to know about this.
|
| [...]
|
| By the way, just to make sure I got my facts 100% right, I checked
| again this morning in their archives for that article.
| And, indeed, it is the only one missing in a long series of articles
| recently published by that author.
| Definitely sounds fishy.
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Here is the scan:
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/screenshots/FRENCH_CHEAP_PC.jpg
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