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MS ad war revisited

Written By
KK
Kristian Köhntopp
Nov 13, 2000

[ Thanks to Kristian
Köhntopp
for this report: ]

In response to
the latest Microsoft Ad
regarding Linux, the german trade
magazine Computerwoche
(computer week) had a cartoon parody of that ad in their Systems 2000 extra issue. A scan of that cartoon
has been sent to me by Frank Pieczynski and made available on my
Website.

The cartoon title translates into The scary metamorphosis of
B.G.
, the text below the title reads A closed [source]
operating system sometimes just mutates.
The rest should be
obvious.

JPEG scan of
printed cartoon

KK

Kristian Köhntopp

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