Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 13:16:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Microsoft's Open Source strategy (was: Ariel Faigon: The Holloween Document (fwd)) Message-ID: <199811022116.NAA01477@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 13:04:38 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.981102120813.6240A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> > >> On Sunday, 1 November 1998 at 23:06:57 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > >>> I got this on a linux list that I'm on and thought I'd forward it to > > >>> this group. It seems relevant. It will likely make you mad. > > >> > > >> This isn't -hackers material. I'm currently reading the full version > > >> (which I've tidied up a bit of remnants of Microsoft formatting and > > >> put at http://www.lemis.com/microsoft-tactics.html). > > > > > > I doubt this document has come from microsoft. > > > > Did you read the entire document? I haven't yet. > > Most of it.. > It seems terribly unprofessional and rather unlikely to me that it is a > document of any importance. It sounds like something that might be written > by some Linux groupie if he was trying to pull off a 'consultant' > gig with microsoft. It's a tough call. It certainly reflects quite a lot of knowledge of Microsoft internals. Nothing that you wouldn't know if you'd read about their internal processes, and absorbed some of their jargon, but not something that a rank outsider would come up with. > > > It smells of "linux fanatic's daydream" to me.. > > > > Then the Linux fanatics must have come up with more credible > > impersonation skills than I would have attributed to them. > > > I don't know.. > I kinda wonder if eric wrote it himself. I doubt it. Eric's style is too unstable and incoherent. I very much doubt that he'd be able to pull off something of this magnitude. My inclination would be towards Jordan's guess; you hit the nail on the head when you say that it's a terrible piece of writing, and reflects either a total incompetent, a really rushed job, or just possibly a piece written for a specific agenda. I think we need to wait to hear the tone of the MS denial before we make too many more guesses. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
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