Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 18 April 2009 02:02 : \____
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> We want to place selection pressure on those companies and individuals
>>> that show a genetic weakness for competitors' technologies, to make the
>>> industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time."
>>>
>>> --Microsoft Corporation (confidential) <
>>> http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096.pdf >
>>
>> "genetic weakness"
>> "unhealthy strains"
>
> Sounds like Gary himself, not just the slander he's spewing about Linux.
>
It is perhaps one of the longest ever orchestrated marketing and sales
campaigns, having run for probably 20 years or more using essentially
the same approach.
It was, of course, spectacularly successful for most of that period,
although things are changing now.
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