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+== Microsoft's dirty tactics against FreeSoftware ==
+
+Please help expand and verify the following list.
+Each claim should come with links to supporting material.
+
+
+=== Targeting GNU/Linux ===
+
+ * Linux is a Cancer (Steve Ballmer)
+
+ * Linux is unamerican (Steve Ballmer)
+ 
+ * Linux TCP/IP stack slower than Windows 2000's
+
+ * Microsoft behind SCO's "smoking gun" claims against Linus Torvalds
+
+ * Trying to bribe Tanembaum against Linus Torvalds
+
+ * Software patent lobby at the EU parliament
+
+ * "Get the Facts!" (AKA "Get the FUD!") campaign
+
+ * "We have the way out!" campagin with Unisys
+
+
+=== Targeting Linux distributors ===
+
+ * Paying Novell with the "vouchers"
+
+ * Paying Novell again
+
+ * Attempting to [[http://olpcnews.com/sales_talk/microsoft/how_microsoft_got_xp_on_the_xo.html | take over OLPC]] (2005)
+
+ * [[http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/15/technology/microsoft_olpc.fortune/index.htm | Undisclosed deal between Bill Gates and Nicholas Negroponte]], disrupting OLPC (2008)
+
+=== Targeting Apple ===
+
+ * Fake "Mac switchers" campaign with stock photos of models
+
+ * The "I'm a PC" campaign
+
+
+=== Targeting open standards ===
+
+ * Creating OOXML to disrupt the Open Document Format.
+
+ * Bribe ISO into accepting OOXML
+
+ * Passport
+
+
+=== Targeting specific FLOSS projects ===
+
+ * Bribe Blender
+
+ * Bribe PHP
+
+ * $100K bribe to Apache Software Foundation
+
+ * The [[http://www.microsoft.com/uk/servers/winclientshearts/ | Windows loves PHP]] campaign (WAMP)
+
+
+=== Targeting OpenSource licenses ===
+
+ * Claiming the GPL is invalid and unenforceable
+
+
+=== Misc ===
+
+ * The (RED) campaign with the U2