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Re: Linux: The New "Grass Roots" Campaign Against It

____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 31 March 2008 16:05 : \____

> Is it me, or is there a new "grass roots" campaign afoot?


>From Microsoft (as text):

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958

keyword/tag: "jihad"


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

,----[ Quote ]
| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest 
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask 
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
| 
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have 
| to go with that. 
`----

http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc


Microsoft's SEC:

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| A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating system...
| To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, sales 
| of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the prices we charge for 
| our products, and revenue and operating margins may consequently decline.   
`----

http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx


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