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Re: Comes px06600, px06601, px06604: Microsoft Fights Intel's Linux


Roy Schestowitz wrote:


>     ?-Original Message?
>     From: Steve Ballmer
>     Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 9:48 AM
>     To: Bob Herbold; Shannon Perdue
>     Cc: Mike Poder (Exchange); Marshall Brumer (Exchange); Bill Gates
>     Subject: RE: Intel/Microsoft Marketing
> 
>     We cannot let intel do chip design on Linux ever what do we need to do
>     to
> change the decision who do we need to call we will put whatever w skin to
> the game they need.
> 


Just incredible!

Proof that in 1999, Microsoft were desperately trying to stop Linux use at
Intel.

In 1999, I had been on Cola about a year and the resident trolls, flatfish
etc were claiming that no one used Linux 'for any serious work' back then
as well.

-- 
If we wish to reduce our ignorance, there are people we will
indeed listen to.  Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
          Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008

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