Salon Magazine: Microsoft's Halloween Scare | Linux Today

Salon Magazine: Microsoft’s Halloween Scare

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 1998

Thanks to Zach Beane for the
link.

“Linux advocates have long talked, only partly tongue in cheek,
about their quest for “world domination,” and their strategies to
achieve it have always been debated online. Microsoft operates
behind closed doors. But now we have at least one window on the
company’s reaction to this latest, most complex challenge to its
software hegemony. War hasn’t been formally declared yet, but the
battle plans are now a matter of public record.”

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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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