Month: November 2003
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My Own PR Assault against Microsoft
[This was originally published on attrition.org.] Infoworld broke a story on Microsoft’s plans for waging a public relations war against “linux” over taking too long to fix security vulnerabilities. The article by Kieren McCarthy outlines Microsoft’s planned smear campaign against its biggest rival, Linux, currently dubbed “Days of Risk”. With the decision to smear Linux in the media,…