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>Interesting article.
>
>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-929669.html

ROF,L
Linux and Apache have always been OpenSource.
Apache runs twice the number of web servers that IIS does.
Microsoft is closed source (excpet for the six weeks the Russian crackers spent wondering around the MS Campus network downloading the family jewels, which MS denies, so that leak is discounted).
Despite these facts, on a percapita basis Microsoft has 9 times the security holes that Open Source has.

Maybe folks call them MS dirty tricks because of these incidents?
http://www.ultraviolet.org/mail-archives/linux-articles.1998/0287.html
Oh, here is the classic: The MindCraft 'study'
http://slashdot.org/features/99/04/23/1316228.shtml
It doesn't matter... this new FUD will die as quickly as the preious FUD
http://www.dgl.com/itinfo/2001/it010227.html

We really enjoyed this cartoon FUD
http://old.lwn.net/2000/1026/a/msad.php3

We also enjoyed this MS website advertizing for anti-Linux "Developer Evangelists"
http://www.aaxnet.com/news/L990501.html
Ya gota love those 'smoking guns' the court case revealed
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24478.html
MS knows that OpenSource will eventually dominate
http://www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/shoulders.html
because they list it as a problem to attack in one of the anti-linux memos that made it into the court
http://www.cyber.com.au/users/conz/on_competing_with_linux_analysis.html

I could go on with tons of listing of MS attempts to generate fake fears about Linux, OpenSource and the GPL.
but a simple Google search on "microsoft anti-linux FUD" will generate most of them. An interesting aside is that stories on msnbc or zdnet which point out Microsoft culpability are usualy deleted or missing from those web servers where they first appeared. Wiithout the Google cash we wouldn't have proof that they were real at one time.
Why is it these two sites have such high 4XX error rates on stories of MS wrong doings?
JLK
Nebraska Dept of Revenue
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