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Re: [News] Microsoft Fearful of Free Software

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Fearful of Free Software
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:18:14 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and
> ignorance

~]# elinks -dump
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312508162768/d10k.htm
| grep -io Linux | wc -w

9

Microsoft cites "Linux" 9 times in their SEC filing.

How odd, considering that Linux has a supposedly "tiny market share" and
therefore "poses no threat" to Microsoft. Presumably they know something
that their shills in COLA do not.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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