---
title: Microsoft released Linux
date: "2002-06-27T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1303
description: I highlight the 'MS Linux' satire site and contemporary news reports questioning whether Microsoft would ever release its own Linux distribution or simply adapt its business model to counter the open-source movement's growth.
keywords: [microsoft, linux, open source, operating systems, satire, mslinux]
---

If [Microsoft released Linux](http://www.mslinux.org/)... but then, they [may not need to](http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25378.html).