____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 11 January 2008 02:51 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:49:52 +0000
> <1327004.9ThqzeQtiS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> [snippage]
>
>> Microsoft Making Millions Off Novell Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Evidence is emerging that Microsoft is making money, lots
>> | of it, from selling 'certificates' for Novell's SUSE Linux.
>> | Microsoft gained the right to distribute the certificates
>> | a little more than a year ago under a marketing and technical
>> | alliance with Novell.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | So, while Linux -- free software that competes with Windows --
>> | may still be a "cancer" for Microsoft, the company has found a
>> | way to profit from it.
>
> The Microsoft Mighty Marketing Machine Midas Mastery. (It's rare
> I can do 6 in a row. :-) )
>
>> | That's a good trick . . . perhaps
>> | Microsoft should next enter the pharmaceutical market?
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/microsoft_makin.html
>>
>
> Um...the notion of rebooting a *pill* to "fix" a problem
> leaves me a little bemused... :-)
>
> The Microsoft Mighty Marketing Machine Medical Misery?
>
> [rest snipped]
Just stay away from the blue pill of... errrr... never mind.
Always remember: when the drugs don't work, it must be the fault of your body
(or hardware).
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