This is an anti-Linux ad by Microsoft published in 2000 in a German magazine. I quote the original source on the meaning of the text, the source has a lot more on Linux and MS, an interesting read.
Microsoft's marketing focus on Linux's liabilities, bugs and 'unpleasant mutations' was made explicit in an advertisement in Germany's most prestigious tech magazine, c't, in October 2000. The two-page ad shows penguins with an elephant's nose, a frog's head and rabbit ears, with the caption: 'An open operating system does not only have benefits'. ('Ein offenes Betriebssystem hat nicht nur Vorteile.') The text continues: 'An open operating system sometimes just mutates. Conversely, Windows 2000 offers all services from a single source'.References:
http://www.vandenboomen.org/wiki/OpenSourceArticle (Same as the 'source' link, just want to be formal on citations)
2 comments:
Didn't know the OSS community had mastered the art of mutable code.
I think MS refers to mutation of features and directions
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