When a non-free proprietary software leasing agency like Microsoft Inc has its portals hosted on Free Software (GNU Linux) platforms (details at http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=microsoft.co.in), our government blinks and looks at the opposite direction (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=mail.bsnl.in).
Wonder why our government is so keen to go after services that even Microsoft doesn't trust !!
Citizens from TN who voted Dayanidhi Maran to power may petition him on this issue. CK Raju
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CK Raju wrote:
When a non-free proprietary software leasing agency like Microsoft Inc has its portals hosted on Free Software (GNU Linux) platforms (details at http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=microsoft.co.in),
A little OT perhaps. But, netcraft reports Linux to be running on Microsoft's websites because MS choose to use Akamai's caching system (which run linux).
Ref: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/17/wwwmicrosoftcom_runs_linux_up_t...
Sometime on Monday 29 January 2007 12:45, CK Raju said:
When a non-free proprietary software leasing agency like Microsoft Inc has its portals hosted on Free Software (GNU Linux) platforms (details at http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=microsoft.co.in), our
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A point to note is that the domain "microsoft.co.in" has been squatted over by some ``eTechSupport.net'' and is not owned by Microsoft.
The result being shown by netcraft are actual ones, eTechSupport does run gnu/linux.
Anurag
CK Raju said on Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:15:01AM +0000,:
When a non-free proprietary software leasing agency like Microsoft Inc has its portals hosted on Free Software (GNU Linux) platforms (details at http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=microsoft.co.in), our
Wonder why our government is so keen to go after services that even Microsoft doesn't trust !!
If the firewall behind which a server running M$ IIS sits is running GNU/Linux, Netcraft may be inaccurate. We need to discount for this fact.
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