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

[David Walker]

They're generally having a bad day.  They apparently moved the site to 
Windows and it has been down for the last couple of hours.

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 05:18 pm, you wrote:
> http://www.wehavethewayout.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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