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Red Hat Executives: The Latest Joke from Redmond

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Michael Tiemann
Sep 22, 2004

“There’s an old joke about the economy works under communism:
the people pretend to work and the government pretends to pay them.
Why is Microsoft giving Governments access to its proprietary
Office software? And what are Governments getting via such access?
Is this some sort of joke?

“Microsoft has protested for years that for all the mischief
they have done to competitors and to the free market, they have
never given themselves unfair competitive advantage by deliberately
compromising the security of the software they sell to
Governments…”

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Michael Tiemann

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