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FC: Microsoft's anti-Unix website runs, well, Unix

[See http://www.wehavethewayout.com/ --AHH]

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From: "Andrew Downey" <spam@andrewdowney.com> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: UNIX BAD, Microsoft GOOD - maybe. Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 23:23:47 -0500

Declan,

I doubt this story is part of an April fools joke - it's just too plausible. It's from today's Wall Street Journal (page b-2 in the dead tree version). I'd forward the URL, but as you know, WSJ.com is a subscription service that's protected by high-tech anti-circumvention technology (in this case, a cookie) and I'm trying to cut back on my DMCA violations.

-Andrew

Microsoft-Led Campaign Against Unix Uses Web Site Running on the Software

By LEE GOMES Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

A Web site funded by Microsoft Corp. urging businesses to avoid the Unix operating system is itself running on Unix, the latest example of Microsoft benefiting from the competitive software even while criticizing it.

The site is connected with a new advertising campaign called "We Have The Way Out" that is co-sponsored by Unisys Corp. and Microsoft. The purpose of the campaign is to persuade corporate computing customers to use computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system instead of Unix, a rival operating system. Ads associated with the campaign say Unix "makes you feel boxed in. It ties you to an inflexible system. It requires you to pay for expensive experts."

But the Web site that is part of the campaign doesn't use Windows for its operations. Instead, it uses a free "open source" version of Unix called FreeBSD, along with another piece of free software called the "Apache" Web server. Both products compete with Microsoft offerings, and both are extremely popular on Internet sites.

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