[olug] [FWD: FC: Microsoft's anti-Unix website runs, well, Unix]

[Brian Roberson]

http://www.wehavethewayout.com

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From: "Timothy G. O'Brien" <IrishMASMS at netscape.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:12 PM
Subject: [olug] [FWD: FC: Microsoft's anti-Unix website runs, well, Unix]


> LMAO!!
>
> Subject:  FC: Microsoft's anti-Unix website runs, well, Unix
>      Date:         Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:07:38 -0500
>     From:      Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
>        To:          politech at politechbot.com
>
>     ---
>
>    From: "Andrew Downey" <spam at andrewdowney.com>
>    To: <declan at well.com>
>    Subject: UNIX BAD, Microsoft GOOD - maybe.
>    Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:23:47 -0500
>
>    Declan,
>
>    I doubt this story is part of an April fools joke - it's just too
>    plausible.  It's from today's Wall Street Journal (page b-2 in the dead
>    tree version).  I'd forward the URL, but as you know, WSJ.com is a
>    subscription service that's protected by high-tech anti-circumvention
>    technology (in this case, a cookie) and I'm trying to cut back on my
>    DMCA violations.
>
>    -Andrew
>
>
>
>    Microsoft-Led Campaign Against Unix
>    Uses Web Site Running on the Software
>
>    By LEE GOMES
>    Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
>
>    A Web site funded by Microsoft Corp. urging businesses to avoid the
Unix
>    operating system is itself running on Unix, the latest example of
>    Microsoft benefiting from the competitive software even while
>    criticizing it.
>
>    The site is connected with a new advertising campaign called "We Have
>    The Way Out" that is co-sponsored by Unisys Corp. and Microsoft. The
>    purpose of the campaign is to persuade corporate computing customers to
>    use computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system instead of
>    Unix, a rival operating system. Ads associated with the campaign say
>    Unix "makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It
>    requires you to pay for expensive experts."
>
>    But the Web site that is part of the campaign doesn't use Windows for
>    its operations. Instead, it uses a free "open source" version of Unix
>    called FreeBSD, along with another piece of free software called the
>    "Apache" Web server. Both products compete with Microsoft offerings,
and
>    both are extremely popular on Internet sites.
>
>    ...
>
>
>
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