MSN and XFree86

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Mon May 17 12:00:16 PDT 2004


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>>Shawn L Johnston wrote:
>>>If your bored at work or need something stupid to do, go to msn.com and
>>>try to search for XFree86. Pretty pathetic.
>>>
>>
>>M$ is just concerned that if they were to tell people about X11, that
>>would lead to knowledge of linux and in the end M$ would be screwed,
>>hence the  "porn content warning"
> 
> 
> except that does't explain it, since you can search for 'linux' without
> getting the run-around.

I suspect it is something mundane like the capital 'X' and "Free" appearing 
together.  I just can't give M$ that much credit for smarts when simple 
stupidity gives a better answer.  (Isn't that somebody's razor?)

     -- Alma




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