Re: [LINUX:4665] [Fwd: Fwd: [LATEST] Microsoft Purchases Linux for $21 Billion]

Omer Faruk Sen (ofsenlinux@yahoo.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:01:21 -0800 (PST)

--- Varol KESKIN <keskinv@astronomy.sci.ege.edu.tr> wrote:
> turgut kalfaoglu wrote:
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> > heh..
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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
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> Ne derece dogru bilmiyorum ama ilginc bir haber....
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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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Vay be valla iyi haber...21 milyar da az degil hani..
desenize yine microsofta mahkum olcaz....

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