More Microsoft Dirt
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri May 16 01:09:07 CDT 2003
** From ENTmag.com: Newspaper -- Microsoft Ran Slush Fund to Counter Linux
(Special to MCPmag.com)
Microsoft operated a slush fund to heavily discount or even give
away Windows in cases where the software giant was about to lose
large international deals to Linux, according to published reports.
The International Herald Tribune reported in Thursday's online
edition that it obtained internal e-mails from Microsoft showing
that Orlando Ayala, former group vice president for Worldwide Sales,
Marketing and Services, created the fund called the "Education and
Government Incentive Program." The fund was to be used to "tip the
scales" in favor of Microsoft "only in deals we would lose
otherwise," Ayala wrote in a July 16, 2002 memo. "Under NO
circumstances lose against Linux," the newspaper reported Ayala's
memo as saying.
Read more:
http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5813
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