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03.21.07

Are Microsoft Your Partners? Or Behind-your-back ‘Snipers’?

Posted in Microsoft, GNU/Linux, FUD at 4:30 pm by Roy Schestowitz

Microsoft has launched a new and controversial anti-Linux Web site. Since it appears to be down at the moment, have a look at this modified screenshot, which tells a thousand words.

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  1. Stephen said,

    March 21, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    I have the podcast describing the sales technique of “linux personas” (before the site mysteriously disappeared) and am happy to share. I would add that the content is fairly benign (IMHO) and nothing surprised me about it, and I didn’t hear anything that I wouldn’t have expected from a company in “competition” mode. In fact, it borders on naive. That said, it does give you a flavour of the Redmond pitch.

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