ZDNet: To Beat Linux: Scam the Customer
“What’s cool about this program from Microsoft’s viewpoint is
that it’s their people who get to play all the leading roles: they
make the rules for the comparison, they set up the Linux machine
used in the tests, they make the dollar estimates used in the
comparisons, and they write the reports…”
Open Source Strategies: Will Microsoft Win the Linux Wars?
“Some of the article’s arguments are downright silly, while
others point to legitimate weaknesses in the open source model as
it exists today.“For example, the article claims that ‘because open source
software is readily customized, there’s no guarantee that even a
specialist fully understands a particular company’s exact flavor of
Linux…'”