[Fsf-friends] Monopoly fights for survival

Wed May 3 10:54:06 IST 2006

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From: doxa at sancharnet.in
To: fsf-friends at mm.gnu.org.in
Sent: à¨¬à©à©±à¨§à¨µà¨¾à¨°  03 à¨®à¨ˆ 2006 10:19:15 à¨¸5à©‡à¨°à©‡ IST
Subject: [Fsf-friends] Monopoly fights for survival

"...Microsoft has been paying the large domain resellers to move their "parked" sites to IIS on Microsoft Server. Moving the parked customers of a single large reseller, GoDaddy.com, caused a shift of 4.5 Million domain names, or 5% of total server share from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the  Netcraft report. This is an "appearance" change only, because the sites involved have no content. But managers believe figures like those in the Netcraft report, and act on them. It's time for the Free Software / Open Source community to fight back...." 
Full story at http://opensourceparking.com/

Just moved my parked domains to opensourceparking.com, thanks for the info.
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Sincerely

Ajay Pal Singh Atwal
Dept of CSE & IT
BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib
Punjab, INDIA
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