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Blast from the Past: Microsoft Dips Into Slush Fund To Fight Off Linux
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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.
In internal memos written last summer and obtained by the paper, then top Gregg Leizer wrote: Microsoft sales executive Orlando Ayala -- who has recently gone on to oversee sales to small- and mid-sized businesses, and to expand the company's Business Solutions partnering channel -- outlined the strategy to keep Microsoft in its leading position as the purveyor of desktop system software.
"Under NO circumstances lose against Linux," Ayala said in the July memo.
[Ed: Evidently it did not work with South Korea -tadelste]
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