From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 07:02:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18667 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18645; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 07:02:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA01467; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:01:59 GMT Message-ID: <363F1AE6.BBBCC89@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 15:01:58 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Baker CC: Sam Eaton , Julian Elischer , Greg Lehey , Warner Losh , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@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> <19981103085254.E23407@wrangler.cuckoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Baker wrote: > 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 somewhat > more authoritative because he's one of the thousands of people that > Micrsofot employees. Why not move this onto -chat? - It looks like it's a thread that's going to run for a while, and -hackers is probably not the best of places? ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message