From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 06:53:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17637 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhub1.cuckoo.com (wrangler.cuckoo.com [206.109.5.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA17541 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbaker@cuckoo.com) Received: (qmail 4146 invoked by uid 200); 3 Nov 1998 14:52:54 -0000 Message-ID: <19981103085254.E23407@wrangler.cuckoo.com> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 08:52:54 -0600 From: Daniel Baker To: Sam Eaton , Julian Elischer , Greg Lehey Cc: Warner Losh , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft's Open Source strategy (was: Ariel Faigon: The Holloween Document (fwd)) References: <19981102172140.J354@freebie.lemis.com> <19981103133312.E15717@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-md5; boundary="ryJZkp9/svQ58syV" X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981103133312.E15717@pavilion.net>; from Sam Eaton on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 01:33:12PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: F3 41 B7 EE 96 92 F5 35 5E 3C 02 61 08 22 23 98 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ ]:8) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03-Nov-1998, Sam Eaton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 12:01:43AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >=20 > > I doubt this document has come from microsoft. [snip] > Just saw this on :=20 > http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15990.html [snip] > So looks like it might well be for real. =20 >=20 > 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... You could be correct, however, it may be that Vinod is an extremist whose is completely attempting to revolutionize Microsoft's business strategy. While quite interesting, I don't find the article incredibly incriminating; had a Linux bigot who wasn't employed by Microsoft written a similar memo, it wouldn't have attracted the huge masses of attention that this memo has simply because the general population views Vinod's opinions as somewh= at more authoritative because he's one of the thousands of people that Micrsofot employees. Warmly, Daniel --=20 dbaker@cuckoo.com - CuckooNet Consultant - www.cuckoo.com --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: UwLRf5cGfl70i787RvQJkTYwVN/ae5q4 iQA/AwUBNj8KtakRxAgyUTYnEQLvugCeIysIgvI8P1ZApc/t0o/ELkGx2JAAoLTU f0jgYksSiKL6s/OamoECjcYo =xrXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ryJZkp9/svQ58syV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message