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LinuxPlanet: The Devil You Know

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 27, 2000

[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard
for this link. ]

“I’m not know for being a Microsoft defender, and occasionally
readers of this Web site take me to task for being too ardent a
critic of Microsoft.”

“So it will suprise many of you to know that I’m actually
going to defend Microsoft here, at least to a certain extent. I am
going to express agreement with Chairman Bill that Microsoft should
not be broken up in the way that the Justice Department and the
state attorneys general want to break up the company.

“There’s a saying that gets repeated in self-help and therapy
circles: be sure and do the right things for the right reasons;
it’s not enough to do the right things for the wrong reasons. In
the case of Chairman Bill, his arguments fall on the side of doing
the right thing for the wrong reasons….”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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