[Fwd: Fwd: [LATEST] Microsoft Purchases Linux for $21 Billion]
Varol KESKIN (keskinv@astronomy.sci.ege.edu.tr)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:37:00 +0200
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> <H2>Microsoft Purchases Linux for $21 Billion</H2>
> <B>Straight from the department of Fake News</B><BR>
> <P>Shocking news was announced today as Redmond, Washington software giant Microsoft,
> currently under investigation in an antitrust lawsuit, purchased linux for a reported $21 billion
> in Microsoft stock and cash.</P>
> <P>Linus Torvalds, the original developer of Linux, is reported to have received 10 billion of
> the loot, with smaller portions going to such Linux noteables as Alan Cox, and various other
> project coordinators around the 'net.</P>
> <P>Microsoft released a press statement today that the buyout was in response to the stiff
> competition that it was receiving from Linux, and that because it felt things were going its way
> in the antitrust suit, it no longer needed to use Linux as the dummy to save its skin.</P>
> <P>"We're just following standard company policy" said President Steve Ballmer. "This is
> what is done with Microsoft when we feel that a product out on the market isn't fitting the needs
> of its primary customers, or
> when we feel that a product just needs that 'Microsoft magical touch'".</P>
> <P>Ballmer claimed that in exchange for stocks and cash, Torvalds would be delivering the
> full operating system source code to Microsoft, and that Torvalds would officially "allow"
> microsoft to develop their own distribution of linux and to take the source development in
> whatever way they saw fit.</P>
> <P>"It's really quite unprecendented" Ballmer mentioned, "for anyone to be able to have full
> access to the source code of an operating system. Personally, I think we really gave ol' Linus
> the shit end of the stick, but hey, that's business," Ballmer chuckled as he held his copy of
> RedHat within his filthy, sweaty little hands.</P>
> <P>Torvalds was unable for an interview, due to a hospitalization apparently due to
> "excessive laughter" His wife Toove was also not in a state to speak clearly as she herself also
> seemed to be experiencing fits of uncontrolled mirth, but the reporter on the scene was able to
> pick up some garbled words about "Ballmer" and "fool".</P>
> <P>As Linus owns the copyright for the trademark Linux, Microsoft intends to begin
> negotiation on a price for that trademark as soon as December 1. The reported price for the
> trademark will be between 7-9 billion.</P><BR CLEAR=all>
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> <B>Written by David Allen <<A
> HREF="mailto:s2mdalle@titan.vcu.edu">s2mdalle@titan.vcu.edu></A></B><BR>
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Varol Keskin
Ege University, Science Faculty,
Astronomy and Space Sciences Department,
Bornova 35100, Izmir - TURKEY
e-mail : keskinv@alpha.sci.ege.edu.tr
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