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[linux-team] [blt] "M$ persecutes Linux users in Switzerland" (fwd)



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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:39:51 -0000 
From: "[x-user-defined] Böğvar Björgvinsson" <bodvar@atlanta.is>
Reply-To: blt@onelist.com
To: "'blt@onelist.com'" <blt@onelist.com>
Subject: [blt] "M$ persecutes Linux users in Switzerland"

From: =?x-user-defined?Q?B=F6=F0var_Bj=F6rgvinsson?= <bodvar@atlanta.is>

The following is a report, published on www.linux.is, on MS persecution of
Linux users in Switzerland. The article is here in a raw translation and I
will not be held responsible for any inaccuracy due to translation problems.


MS staff in SWI searched a few days ago all the main Linux websites, e-mail
lists and webhosters for e-mail addresses of Linux users.

M$ contacted Linux users registered on the www.linux.ch web.

M$ contacted those firms using Linux and told them that they were registered
as Linux users on that web. M$ asked them then why they were using Linux and
why they used it instead of Windows. Further, they asked which programs they
were running under Linux.

Those companies contacted were bound by a so-called Microsoft SELECT
contract (or agreement, this is just a raw translation BTW), which says that
they are not allowed to use other O/Ss than Microsoft's.

There is a little easier to understand for most of you -- info on this (and
first hand, probably) here:

http://www.linux.ch/linux/news/

This is the Ice version:

05.10.1999. - 12:54:02 - Árni Arent Guğlaugsson
                        Microsoft ofsækir Linux notendur í Sviss
                        Microsoft starfsmenn í Sviss leituğu nú á dögunum á
öllum helstu Linux vefsvæğum, póstlistum og
                        vefspjöllum ağ netföngum şeirra sem nota Linux.

                        Microsoft hafği samband viğ skráğa notendur Linux
kerfisins sem voru birtir á lista á svissneska Linux
                        vefnum, www.linux.ch. 

                        Microsoft hafği samband viğ şau fyrirtæki sem voru
ağ nota Linux og sagği şeim ağ şeir væru skráğir Linux
                        notendur á www.linux.ch. Microsoft hóf ağ spyrja
fyrirtækin ağ şví hversvegna şau væru ağ nota Linux og
                        afhverju şau notuğu Linux í stağ Windows. Einnig
voru şau spurğ hvağa forrit şau væru ağ keyra á Linux. 

                        Şau fyrirtæki sem var haft samband viğ voru bundin
af svokölluğum Microsoft SELECT samningi, en í şeim
                        samningi segir hvergi ağ fyrirtækin megi ekki nota
önnur stırikerfi en şağ sem Microsoft bığur upp á.


Bodvar

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