It was already submitted to Newsforge...and slammed pretty hard! -----Original Message----- From: Holden Hao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 11:03 AM To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List Subject: Re: {Spam?} [plug] InfoTech Article
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 22:24, Michael Chaney wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:28:19PM -0800, inion wrote: > > Have any of you seen this? So in essence we are deriving the > > Philippine economy of potential earnings if the country adopts an > > Open Source policy? How true is this? > > http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/aug/08/text/inf_38-1-p.htm > > I'm not sure how aware you folks are in the Philippines of Microsoft's > tactics, but this letter was likely written by a Microsoft PR worker, > then given to Wilson to pass off as his own. They'll never come out > and say this directly, but they'll pay someone else to. I don't know about who really wrote the article but I believe that the column itself came to being with MS PR backing. Its part of a master plan folks. Anybody want to submit the article to Slashdot.? ;> Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
