Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:41:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, aturoff@isinet.com Cc: Zippy <seth@interport.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft (was: Netscape browser) Message-ID: <19990319144125.S429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990318205927.03f2e520@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0700 References: <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.990318150841.12432A-100000@interport.net> <4.1.19990318155537.03f05850@localhost> <19990319112909.H429@lemis.com> <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> <19990319120920.J429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990318205927.03f2e520@localhost>
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On Thursday, 18 March 1999 at 21:00:21 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. Ballmer verified that the c't article didn't mention Linux? He's wrong. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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