"I'm thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. ... they should do a delicate dance," Kempin wrote to Ballmer, in what is sure to be a memorable addition to the phrases ("knife the baby", "cut off the air supply") with which Microsoft enriched the English language in the first trial. Unlike those two, this is not contested.

The bullets aimed Spaghetti Western-style at the feet of the dancing OEMs translate to Microsoft withholding source code, according to the memo.


The transcripts of this trial are even more interesting than the last trial...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24478.html

Did anyone understand anything he said?

go to the link he provided and then probably you 'll understand what he meant ... :)

Anyone else want to DoS M$.

Originally posted by CChard
Did anyone understand anything he said?

Here's a couple of slightly more lucid paragraphs from a different article:

"THE NINE US STATES holding out for further antitrust action against Microsoft dropped a bombshell in court yesterday when it was claimed Dell came under pressure to drop its Linux plans because it was a "premium partner" for Windows 2000.

The damaging allegation was revealed by a lawyer for the nine states, who said that a memo sent to CEO Steve Ballmer suggested he "remind" Dell that promoting other operating systems wasn't appropriate for such a close partner of Microsoft....

Article is here (http://www.theinquirer.net/19030214.htm)


also, be sure to go to the article in my previous post, and check out the links at the bottom of that article. Scary stuff.