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> Survey says: Microsoft's patent might worries few, angers many more
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> | The vast majority of respondents, some 54 percent, indicate that they
> | would prefer to increase their use of Linux -- and decrease their us
> | of Windows, as a result of Microsoft's patent pleadings.
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2464
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> *LOL* They'll use Linux _FOR SPITE_.
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> Three Scenarios For How Microsoft's Open Source Threat Could End
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> | Customers, meantime, hate getting pulled into this game. Microsoft
> | is "out to strong-arm other companies," says Eric Simon, VP of IT
> | at Brookfield Homes, a California-based home builder that uses
> | both Windows and Linux. "Shame on Microsoft for trying to
> | squelch innovation," says an IT director who requested anonymity.
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199602086
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This is good. The people ready to *revolt*?
The fear of MS is gone, even students are sort of blank on what really is
microsoft.
What a difference. It's just like changing old dirty wool underwear for
new cotton stuff -- sort of.
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