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ZDNet Australia: Using Open Source as a Bargaining Chip

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Have you noticed the flurry of fluffy coverage in the media
about ‘so-and-so investigates Linux/open source hence Microsoft
will suffer hefty losses’?

“It has reached such a silly stage that soon, if your
neighbourhood kebab shop were to adopt Linux, that too could make
the front page.

“What’s basically happening is a simple case of media
manipulation by customers because in three months, one-third of
Windows server software contracts with Microsoft’s largest global
clients will be up for renewal…”


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