Microsoft memo: Linux fight backfiring (News.com)

[Posted November 7, 2002 by ris]

According to this News.com article, Microsoft execs are now realizing their tactics are not effective against Linux. " Top Microsoft executives, including co-founder Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, have long derided open-source software as being everything from a "cancer" to "Pac-Man-like." But those messages have failed to diminish the popularity of open-source programs such as Linux among developers and customers, according to a Microsoft memo distributed at a strategy meeting in Berlin in September."

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