From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 05:44:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08866 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 05:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mushi.colo.neosoft.com (mushi.colo.neosoft.com [206.109.6.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA08859 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 05:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@taronga.com) Received: (qmail 18956 invoked from network); 3 Nov 1998 13:43:54 -0000 Received: from bonkers.neosoft.com (HELO bonkers.taronga.com) (root@206.109.2.48) by mushi.colo.neosoft.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 1998 13:43:54 -0000 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA11740; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:43:51 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:43:51 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199811031343.HAA11740@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft's Open Source strategy Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <19981103133312.E15717@pavilion.net> References: <19981102172140.J354@freebie.lemis.com> , Organization: none Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19981103133312.E15717@pavilion.net>, Sam Eaton wrote: >Doesn't make it an accurate assement of the state of Open Source >Software, but it does make it an interesting explanation of MickySofts >world view... It's entirely consistent with Microsoft's observed behaviour. Look at their track record with gratuitous file format and protocol changes. Windows 2000's Kerberos and DNS support will be subtly incompatible with standard Kerberos and DNS, for example... I don't believe Microsoft's backpedalling one moment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message