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Re: Comes: How Microsoft Attacked Linux in Wal-Mart (Full Text, px09617)


After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> Confidential Memo
>
> To: Microsoft Internal
> From: Walmart/Linux Taskforce: Robin Bradshaw, Christine Briggs, Mark Croft
> David Hoffman & Tom Perrier
> CC: Rogers Weed
>
> Date: May 16, 2006
>
> Summary
>
> Microtel PCs without an operating system (?naked?) first started appearing on
> Walmart.com in CY 01. We responded by working with Walmart.com on the language
> that was used to market those PCs. The focus was on ?anti-piracy? messages.

What business of Microsoft's was /that/?

> The first Microtel Lindows PCs appeared on Walmart.com in June 2002. We are
> responding with a taskforce and coordinated efforts to understand the
> situation and intentions of all parties involved.

What business of Microsoft's was /that/?

Thanks, Roy.

-- 
A girl with a future avoids the man with a past.
		-- Evan Esar, "The Humor of Humor"

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