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Microsoft Dips Into Slush Fund To Fight Off Linux
May 15, 2003 (5:34 p.m. EST)
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
First there was the flush, now there's the slush. As in slush fund.
Just days after Microsoft's iLoo public relations snafu where the company's U.K. division floated a trial balloon for an unbelievable Internet-enabled portable toilet -- comes news that the company will go to virtually any length to battle Linux in the lucrative operating system market.
According to reports published in the Thursday edition of the “International Herald Tribune,” Microsoft is prepared to draw on an internal slush fund to sell its products at deep discounts, or at last resort, give them away, when it runs up against Linux in contests for big government and institutional contracts.
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