[svlug] MICROSOFT VS LINUX

[John Conover]

I just spent some time mulling over the "Halloween document" from Eric
S.  Raymond-all 37 pages of it. Attached is a fragment concerning
Linux. What I found interesting is:

     Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services
     and create new protocols

It kind of depends on the context in which it is taken, but what it
says is that Microsoft should modify existing commodity protocols,
(HTML/HTTP is cited,) and add value by adding Microsoft specific
extensions for the expressed reason of "Beating Linux".

Kind of a "if you can't win at the game, change the rules" mentality.

        John

BTW, very few winners want the rules changed. Steven Jobs was
right-they don't have any class. I mean, suggesting to change all the
HTTP servers in the world all because of a Finnish undergraduate ...

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>From line 1960 of the Halloween document's raw HTML:

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Beating Linux

         In addition to the attacking the general weaknesses of OSS
         projects (e.g. Integrative / Architectural costs), some
         specific attacks on Linux are:

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         Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols /
         services and create new protocols

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         Some examples of Microsoft initiatives which are extending
         commodity protocols include:
         
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             HTTP-DAV. DAV is complex and the protocol spec provides
             an infinite level of implementation complexity for
             various applications (e.g. the design for Exchange over
             DAV is good but certainly not the single obvious
             design). Apache will be hard pressed to pick and choose
             the correct first areas of DAV to implement.

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