Microsoft selling anti-Linux speech on CD
Volish partners to pay for brainwash?
By Fernando Cassia: Wednesday 22 October 2003, 13:30
"Public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony
'grass-roots' front groups, and conspire with lobbyists".
"Toxic Sludge is Good for You: lies, damn lies, and the Public Relations
Industry".
IT IS NOT news that Microsoft would like to see the Linux airship go down in flames like
the Hindenburg. In June 2001, the PR wizards at the Vole's Marketing Department
created a document titled 'Partner Guide: Competing with Linux'. It was a training
course for Microsoft partners who were obviously getting increasing competition from
Linux.
That document was dissected and debunked at the time. But now some of our readers
whispered to us that Microsoft is selling an updated -we guess- version of this marketing
weapon of mass destruction, in the form of a CD-ROM disc to their "Business
Partners" which is linked from the web page dedicated to the company's sales and
marketing efforts.....
Read more at
http://www.theInquirer.net/?article=12276