funny news

[M.W.Chang]

--- crossposted from profox at leafe.com

        "An advertising campaign funded by Unisys Corp. and Microsoft
Corp. 
aimed at converting Unix users to their high-end server products hit a 
sour note Monday. [snip]  As it turns out, a Web site built to promote 
the advertising campaign is itself running on the FreeBSD operating 
system, a free version of Unix, according to Netcraft, which monitors 
the software and operating systems being used by Web site 
administrators. In addition, Netcraft revealed that the campaign Web 
site is hosted on an Apache Web server, another free piece of software 
developed by open source programmers."

        Full story: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/02.unix.php

        Remember the classic definition of "chutzpah"? A man kills both
his 
parents, and then pleads for leniency, seeing as he's an orphan now. 
Seems like Microsoft is trying to re-write that old joke.