Thanks to Peter Crane for
this link.
“It takes powerful air conditioning to keep the technology
testing gear cool at PC Week Labs in Foster City. The chill in the
conference room had a different source.
“You couldn’t miss the mutual disdain as several Microsoft Corp.
managers faced off with several members of the loose-knit but
increasingly effective community that has been pushing the
GNU/Linux operating system — usually known as just plain Linux —
as a competitor to Microsoft’s Windows NT.”
“While this confrontation may have limited meaning as a
real-world battle of technologies — benchmarks have well-known
limitations — it’s another milestone in the progress of a powerful
movement.”