On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 08:22, Michael Vieths wrote: > Sarcasm aside, money is money, and it's also possible they just > subscribe to an ad service that has some MS ads in their list. You probably got closest with the last guess. These are doubleclick ads, if you check the link. So I imagine that Microsoft just asked doubleclick to run their ads on tech sites. Microsoft probably doesn't even know that their are being run on a Linux site :) BTW, the ads run on all OSDN sites. -- Brent Metzler | AIM: bmetzl1999 brent at bmetzler.org | Y! : bmetzl1999 612-270-0119 | ICQ: 43952639