[svlug] WC:>: MS Linux memo verified (fwd)

[Javilk]

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>From alsil at www3.clever.net  Tue Nov  3 05:59:52 1998
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The notorious MS memo on how to defuse/demolish the threat posed to 
Windows by Linux is genuine, says news.com:

	http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh

Referring to Open Source Software (OSS) such as Linux specifically, the 
memo discusses:

    ...ways to "deny OSS projects entry into the market,"
    concluding that the best method would be to expand on the
    protocols that make the software so popular and distributing
    them to customers. Because Linux is not made by any single
    entity, the memo states, "we must target a process rather  
    than a company."

Interesting phrase, by the way: "we must target a process rather than a 
company."  One can easily interpret the sub-text here as being, "Well, 
here's a change; we normally screw over *companies* to make sure their 
products die/never make it to market... this time we have to sabotage a 
*process*."  Seems to imply a fundamental corporate ethos over there in 
Redmond, to the effect that crushing the competition is simply business as 
usual.


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