Looks like some of the hype precipitated by the SCO crusade.
Gene
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:48:26 -0700, Charlie Bullen
<
mandrake@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm forwarding this email that I just got from someone called
> Baseline_on_behalf_of_Microsoft. I can't be certian if it really was
> sent on behalf on Microsoft, but I wouldn't put it past them.
>
> Certainly falls in the FUD catagory.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:57:17 -0400
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