From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 18 20:12:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4086D14DBD; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA29926; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:41:27 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA80265; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:41:25 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990319144125.S429@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:41:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass , aturoff@isinet.com Cc: Zippy , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft (was: Netscape browser) References: <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> <4.1.19990318155537.03f05850@localhost> <19990319112909.H429@lemis.com> <99Mar18.202531est.113793@pandora.isinet.com> <19990319120920.J429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990318205927.03f2e520@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990318205927.03f2e520@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 09:00:21PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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