High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/06/money-comes-back-to-google
>>
>> "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I?m going to fucking
>> bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again.
>> I?m going to fucking kill Google." --Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
>> CEO
>
> He sounds like an unwelcomed COLA troll. Like father, like son?
>
> Here is something that might explain the increased anti-Linux
> trolling going on in COLA and just about all other Linux forums
> on the internet.
>
> http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=6428
>
> Ballmer Takes Anti-Linux Campaign to IT Executive E-mail List
>
> [quote]
> It was the first time that Microsoft has used the IT executive
> e-mail newsletter to overtly attack a competitive threat. In the
> past, the executive e-mails from Ballmer, chairman and chief
> software architect Bill Gates and group vice president Jeff
> Raikes have addressed internal issues, industry challenges or
> generic IT topics. Previous messages included Gates' famous
> Trustworthy Computing message and two updates on security
> progress, messages on spam and preserving and enhancing the value
> of e-mail, managing IT for business value and Microsoft's
> commitment to customers.
>
> In his Microsoft Monitor blog, Jupiter Research analyst Joe
> Wilcox noted that the lack of new arguments bewildered him until
> he made a connection with the timing of the end of support for
> Windows NT 4.0. The end of extended support for the
> eight-year-old server operating system on Dec. 31 is widely
> viewed as an opportunity for customers to consider switching
> their Windows servers to Linux.
>
> "The time is right for Microsoft to come out swinging at Linux
> again. With the NT 4 support respirator about spent and customer
> holdouts still hanging onto the operating system but looking for
> a spry replacement, Microsoft has every reason to make sure
> migration isn't to Linux," Wilcox wrote.
> [/quote]
>
> Since Vista as an operating system has not been well received and
> there is considerable negative sentiment about it, the
> opportunity has arisen for the world to embrace other operating
> system technologies.
>
> A rather good take for Linux, but a rather sad commentary on the
> opposition.
>
Be very afraid... Steve Ballmer's written a nasty executive e-mail
newsletter...
I wonder if anyone is dumb enough to fall for this stuff any more? Oh
yeah, apart from Ashley Highfield and Erik Huggers and Alistair
Farquarson...
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