Microsoft in TBTF

[Robin M. Stephens]

And here is a link to the document for those interested.  Suprisingly
accurate in places.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html

Robin

At 01:18 AM 5/11/98 GMT, brd@dynamite.com.au wrote:
>There is also a piece on Microsoft's view of Open Source
>Software:
>
>The Halloween Document
>
>Whose trick, whose treat?
>
>Someone anonymously sent to Eric Raymond an internal Microsoft 
>memo purporting to detail the company's view of Linux and the
>Open Source movement. Raymond, a grand old man in the world
>of Open Source since his article The Cathedral and the Bazaar
>[6] influenced Netscape's decision to open up the source code
>for Communicator, spent the Halloween weekend annotating the
>memo and has posted it on the Web [7]. Raymond says:
>
>> It is in recognition of the date, and my fond hope that pub-
>> lishing it will help realize Microsoft's worst nightmares,
>> that I named it the "Halloween Document."
>
><snip>
>-- 
>Regards
>brd
>
>Bernard Robertson-Dunn
>Canberra Australia
>brd@dynamite.com.au
>
>