Is it time to throw tomatoes?

[Lorie Obal]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Murry Shohat wrote:

> I'm beginning to agree. If you think about it from 50,000 feet, what 
> Microsoft is doing is the finest recognition that the Linux community 
> could hope to achieve. Flattery via imitation!
> 
 A classic marketing technique is to let your big budget competitor carry 
the freight in terms of media saturation and then introduce your product 
once the public is aware if the product (type) existence. Let MS run those 
ads.

P.S. I'm not a in marketing, I just happen to know this.

-Lorie