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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (3769)10/26/2002 4:45:14 PM
From: XBrit  Respond to of 25522
 
IBM did exactly the same thing with Linux decals a couple of years back. So I guess MSFT figured, the Linux guys started it and they got a lot of publicity, so...

Obviously, in both cases there was no "mistake" at all. Rather, an unemotional cost/benefit judgement on the publicity value of the news stories, versus any image tarnishing.