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Halloween Document Revisited

Posted by timothy on from the mu-ha-ha-ha dept.

GroundBounce writes: "The front page of LWN has an interesting three-year-after analysis of the predictions in the Halloween document, which was "leaked" from Microsoft around Halloween of 1998. It's interesting to see how their predictions have/have not panned out."

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  1. Interesting... by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the memo there is a pretty graph of the differnt flavors of "Open Source". They list "BSD-Style". The interesting there is that the "All Derivatives Must Be Free" column is not checked.

    M$'s TCP/IP stack is directly from BSD.

    Windows isn't "free".

    Interesting...

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