From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 18 20: 1: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F199815556; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA21086; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:00:24 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990318205927.03f2e520@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:00:21 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , aturoff@isinet.com From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft (was: Netscape browser) Cc: Zippy , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990319120920.J429@lemis.com> References: <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> <4.1.19990318155537.03f05850@localhost> <19990319112909.H429@lemis.com> <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:09 PM 3/19/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> The microsoft-ologists came to the conclusion that this is an example >> of microsoft's internal compliance department (or marketing, or PR, >> or somesuch) at work. The story goes that there is an internal gestapo >> that fines anyone who talks to the press and mentions a term/competitor >> by name if that term/competitor is on the internal blacklist. >> >> The mention of FreeBSD was thought to mean that Linux made it onto >> the blacklist, but billg had a prepared speech, so he s/Linux/FreeBSD/g; >> to avoid paying the fine. > >Yes. This, too, was mentioned, and I sent out a more detailed >explanation refuting it. Ah, but Ballmer has since verified it. It's a sort of game the execs play. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message