Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:11:48 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The halloween document again. Message-ID: <4.1.19981102210931.047a4bd0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <199811030312.TAA03501@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:10:37 PST." <199811030310.TAA27486@hub.freebsd.org>
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At 07:12 PM 11/2/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >The counterargument to this is "such a policy of implement-and-extend >can be demonstrated only to be effective if the >implementor-and-extendor has monopolostic control", and "it can be >demonstrated that Microsoft employs lots of smart people that must >already know this". This lends credence to the notion that the document is an intentional leak, designed by Microsoft to create the impression that it feels threatened by open source software. This would make sense, because the "leak" coincides with Gates' testimony in the DoJ case. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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