Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 02:32:12 -0800 From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft "Halloween document:" Authentic? Message-ID: <19981102023212.A11933@best.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981101223919.0462acd0@127.0.0.1>; from Brett Glass on Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:54:07PM -0700 References: <4.1.19981101223919.0462acd0@127.0.0.1>
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On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:54:07PM -0700, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote: > Eric Raymond has published a document which he claims is an internal white > paper from Microsoft on the subject of open source software. The document > is "conveniently" slanted toward the Linux camp in that it identifies Linux > as being of major interest (and a major threat to Microsoft) and dismisses > FreeBSD (and the other *BSDs) as too little of a threat to be worth > investigating. (The list of open source software projects of interest, at > the end of the document, doesn't include a link to any *BSD Web sites.) It > also describes the presence of a core team, and coordination and vetting of > contributions to the code base, as weaknesses rather than strengths. > > It's not clear whether the document is authentic, a "head fake" > (intentional leak), or a complete fraud. However, the slant toward Linux, > and the absence of more than a passing mention of the *BSDs, strikes me as > suspicious -- as if a Linux partisan wrote it. > > What do you think? Raymond has posted the document at > > http://www.tuxedo.org/%7Eesr/halloween.html > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message This URL already went to advocacy and later on to hackers. I have a feeling tomorrow when people get to work and check the mail from the lists they are on - we will have three threads on three different lists. I also have a feeling all those three threads will pretty much say: Both MS and esr really don't know what is going on in the *BSD world. To put it mildly :) -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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