MSN and XFree86
David A. Bandel
david
Mon May 17 12:00:16 PDT 2004
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:08:16 -0600
Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> 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?)
Ocham's (spelling?) razor. Doesn't apply. Try searching for XFree85 or
XFree87 and and you get very different results.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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