* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> ____/ Charlie Wilkes on Thursday 13 March 2008 11:55 : \____
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>> I am a Linux advocate in the sense that I use it, I like it, and I want
>> to see it make progress in the marketplace. But at the same time,
>> intellectual honesty is important. WalMart did not stop selling Linux
>> machines in its stores as part of a FUD campaign. They are a public
>> company, answerable to shareholders who want profits, not FUD. WalMart
>> made a business decision about how to most profitably utilize their floor
>> space. End of story.
>
> for the record, I do not believe or suggest there is a management conspiracy
> here, but I do suspect that the media's reaction was unnatural.
Exactly.
> I watch many feeds and never before have I seen such a /flood/ of
> misleading headlines and insults (yes, some headlines generalised and
> even insulted). The closest thing to this which I can recall was
> in May last years when Microsoft issued patent threats against FOSS.
> The media added _A LOT_ of unnecessary drama. I wasn't alone in
> noticing this. Even scientists published some things about how it was
> orchestrated.
--
"Microsoft has had competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have
museums to document this stuff."
-- Bill Gates, in a talk at the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, Calif.
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