Martin Brooks: Response to Microsoft's Linux Myths Statement | Linux Today

Martin Brooks: Response to Microsoft’s Linux Myths Statement

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 6, 1999

[ Linux Today reader Martin Brooks writes:
]

“Microsoft have produced an comprehensive but presumably not
exhaustive list of why they feel that NT is a better choice overall
than Linux. We feel that some of the points in this article are
simply wrong and therefore have released this response to their
article.
The ‘we’ who have contributed are named at the bottom
of the page. Our comments are in bracketed bold italics.”

You may read the response here.

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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