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++Change == Same

The more some things change, the more they stay the same. It's interesting to see how some stories keep popping up, over and over--and then it's even more interesting to see what happens when things turn out different.

So, RIP to my favorite resource for Microsoft FUD and unintentional support for open source software, Microsoft's "Get the Facts" website: purportedly a repository of good, un-biased information from third-party researchers about how much better Windows Server is than Linux.

The story of the demise (as well as some of the good stuff that made it so juicy) is here at Linux Watch: Microsoft kills off anti-Linux 'Get the Facts' site. I wrote about "Get the Facts" earlier this summer on my Linux Cookbook website ("Microsoft's "Get the Facts" (tm) Campaign, Deconstructed"), and was hoping to make a mini-career of deconstructing all that propaganda. Now, I'll just have to look for the FUD in new places, but the good news is that Microsoft's replacement, windowsserver/compare, looks like it'll be chock full of FUD-goodness.

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