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Story: War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign

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Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority about this, UK! We have no comparable outfit in the US, so an unscrupulous advertiser like Micro$haft can repeatedly get away with gross distortions of reality.

This is just a new front in Micro$lug's anti-competitive FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) Campaign, which has been waged - ruthlessly - since the early '90's.

Aside from the obvious implications of M$'s sponsorship of these studies, an even cursory look at the "facts" as presented show a deliberate and quite bizarre skewing of research parameters. Comparing the RAW TCO for Win on ONE INTEL BOX versus only ONE IMAGE of Linux running on TWO MAINFRAMES is obscene.

Beyond the obvious issues of TCO vs. superior availability, or that THOUSANDS of Linux images can be run on a mainframe, it's astonishing they think they can get away with this kaka without further sullying the by-now hideous reputation of M$!

Being a predatory monopolist means never having to say you're soirry!

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