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Is Microsoft Afraid to Say the “L”-word?
Mar 10, 2010, 16 :32 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5118 reads)

(Other stories by Glyn Moody)

[ Thanks to Glyn Moody for this link. ]

"It seems that, having lost its position as monarch of the world of computing, Microsoft has decided to become the industry jester.Last week I wrote about its amusing suggestion that we should all be taxed to clean up the mess its software has caused. Now we have this witty post on Microsoft's Port 25 site, which involves writing about open source software applications and the platforms they run on without mentioning “Linux” once.

"The piece is entitled “Geeknet at OSBC 2010" and begins thus:"

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