M$ Purchases Evil for $2.7 Billion To Dominate Market

Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan
By Brian Briggs

Redmond, WA - Microsoft purchased evil from Satan for $2.7 billion after many months of tough negotiations.

"We've been after Satan for some time," said CEO Steve Ballmer. "Negotiations were tough, but I think both Microsoft and the Prince of Darkness are happy with this deal."

Microsoft already controls 15% of the evil market, and with this purchase that number nears 100%. The Department of Justice voiced concerns over one corporation controlling so much evil, and launched investigations.

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Hey, I'm just passing this along. :-)

sakiZ

Well I don't know if Microsoft is late in the evil market.....I think they have been in that market for quite a while.... :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06...osoft_disgust/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/13/ms_ban_freedom/

common knowledge I know, but I figured worthy of post.

Cute.

It depends on whether evil consists of knowlingly peddling an inferior product to customers *and* arranging for them to have very limited alternatives. That they know of, that is. As far as I can tell, the world simply hasn't caught on to Linux yet. It's still an underground product. I say, what Linux needs is for one of the commercial distributions, or some organization that supports them, to fund a large public marketing campaign. How could the world not want to at least try an operating system that usually is free?

<<How could the world not want to at least try an operating system that usually is free?>>

Really!! Hey it's software! If you don't like it, you can erase it. But then, once you try it, you can't go back.

I find it very interesting that M$ is gearing up a $500 Million ad campaign to convince computer users it needs Vista -- which has been delayed yet again!!!!

How good could it be if they have to spend that much money to convince us? :-)

Someday Linux underground will be overground. It's catching fire in the third world and developing nations.

sakiZ

I love how Vista's coming in what are now nicknamed "ditsros". Meaning they have different ports. Imagine that. Microsoft doing something besides x86. Only, that something happens to be x86_64, which is nice, but I won't raise my eyebrows until I see some MIPS code out there.