Microsoft’s .Net: Bill’s gate to the cyber toll bridge

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Author: JT Smith

Kelly McNeill writes, “Not long ago, a Microsoft ad campaign asked where consumers wanted to go. That slogan came back to me the other day, after Microsoft’s latest shipment of propaganda landed, this time aimed squarely at that supposed grave threat to civilization and progress, the GNU software license. Of course the GNU project and its license have been around for well over a decade, but a few of its offspring have recently surpassed Microsoft products in terms of total market share and/or growth rate. Now, Microsoft accuses GNU of threatening the global economy. Coincidence?” The column’s at osOpinion.