From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 2 20:12:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04629 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:12:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04590; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA02352; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 21:12:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981102210931.047a4bd0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: brett@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:11:48 -0700 To: Mike Smith , "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The halloween document again. Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811030312.TAA03501@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:12 PM 11/2/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >The counterargument to this is "such a policy of implement-and-extend >can be demonstrated only to be effective if the >implementor-and-extendor has monopolostic control", and "it can be >demonstrated that Microsoft employs lots of smart people that must >already know this". This lends credence to the notion that the document is an intentional leak, designed by Microsoft to create the impression that it feels threatened by open source software. This would make sense, because the "leak" coincides with Gates' testimony in the DoJ case. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message