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Truth In Advertising
Submitted by Wonko The Sane on 25 August, 2004 - 15:50.
Well, for those people who were paying attention - the authorities have finally tackled Microsoft's comparison with GNU/Linyx in their advertising. Specifically, the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) 'has upheld a series of public complaints over an advert in a magazine comparing the cost of Linux versus Microsoft Windows.'
Oops.
Not that most of us didn't know this earlier this year, but I suppose that the advertising didn't appear in a magazine, and therefore was not under the jurisdiction of the U.K.'s ASA.
But wait? Who is in charge of regulating advertising on the internet?