Microsoft advertisements for the Linux community - Linux users

Quite a strange idea - to advertise Microsoft products with the title “Selling a Linux-server” in the community of active and mostly highly advanced users of free software, popular among web-versions.0 builders ^* (without going into details from the Holy War field Apache + MySQL vs. IIS + SQL Server).
Let's try to understand the motives of a great corporation.

+ Pros for advertiser +
1. The constant mention of the “fact” about the sale of the same Linux server will raise a doubt in the mind of the freesoft programmer about the choice of the professional way.
2. The constant mention of Microsoft products affects the subcortex. That in the future will lead to the immediate participation of the crust at the time of the impulse purchase of a new operating system of the leader of the organization, licensed and not yet activated.

- Cons for advertiser -
1. For those who know firsthand about the real qualities of the products being compared, this advertisement causes a smirk (in different degrees of causticity).
2. A strong bundle of “microsoft-deceitful g-clear” in the head of the most (!) Active users of various software products.
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The real feelings of a community member
It’s pretty unpleasant to see rather dubious sentences composed by literate copywriters on a resource deserving the best advertisers.

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