As we are working on the data in the Comes v. Microsoft exhibits, describing the contents or transcribing each so as to make them keyword searchable, we are coming across some interesting materials regarding Microsoft's view of Linux. As far back as 1999, Bill Gates was asking his executives if there was a way to make things harder for Linux. For example, here's Comes Exhibit 3020...
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lozz
14 years 13 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago
They looked like trainee crooks
I saw a group-picture of the M$-gang from somewhere circa.1990. They all had bad tempered, disaffected faces that would make you cross the street if you saw them lurking on a corner, after dark.
They didn't look talented, or cool, enough to have formed a punk rock band and they were too small to have made a successful living by mugging unwary passers-by.
How were this unhappy little bunch ever going to fulfill their life-long ambition of making the whole world feel as cranky and irritable as they were?
Even they were entitled to one bright idea in their miserable, little lives, and it's made the rest of the world unhappy, ever since.