Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com) [LWN.net]

Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com)

Posted Oct 1, 2004 8:01 UTC (Fri) by cross (guest, #13601)
Parent article: Desktop Linux is Windows piracy aide (Silicon.com)

Gartner had already retracted this, they hoped *before* it got published by the media.

"We in the press find recalls and corrections a big help. We get a hell of a lot of junk that we assume is dull and therefore throw away without reading, often without even noticing, but the shrill words RECALL!!" or "CORRECTION!!!!" signify to us that there is something somebody has decided they'd rather not have said, or that they'd rather we didn't read. We dive straight into the trash, and although frequently the original remains very dull indeed and is immediately retrashed, sometimes it isn't.

We're not sure about this week's effort on behalf of Gartner, because we didn't get it in the first place and it may be that, bless 'em, they've drawn our attention to something they never actually distributed.* Not directly, anyway. The unreleased/dereleased release was headed: "Linux has a fight on its hands in emerging PC markets says Gartner," and we can track it back as far as this report here, which you'll note Gartner wants a cool $795 for the full text of."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/29/linux_windows_pir...

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