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MS should just keep mum on Linux
All MS is doing is providing advertisement to something that doesn't have a real central marketing machine, . . . besides a number of catchy IBM commercials. Only way MS could put the ad breakers on Linux and Open Source is to tie it to something that the public would disdain and even the SCO thing isn't substantial bias material.

Someone said it before, MS put your money into making MS software better. Leave the mudslinging to politicians and forums.
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