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Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the deploy-public-relations-decoys dept.

inode_buddha writes "Eric S. Raymond has the eighth "Halloween" memo available here. It looks like Microsoft is really beginning to notice the national and corporate movement towards FS/OSS, and is reacting accordingly."

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  1. Microsoft spreading FUD??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's a paddling!

  2. Good Crap by Burgundy+Advocate · · Score: 0, Troll

    The eighth Halloween memo?

    Sheesh. ESR needs to find a new hobby.

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    Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
  3. 2003 Prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would be very surprised if we didn't see a high-profile coder in the Open Source community such as Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox suddenly "vanish" without a trace. This whole memo speaks of desparation on the part of Microsoft, and it looks like they're ready and raring to send a message to the OSS community. I can see them going after the heads of the five major software projects in the OSS world in order to send a signal to the rest of us. And with a "business-friendly" President and Attorney General, don't expect much in the way of an investigation, let along charges filed. They will call it a "mysterious departure" or "unsolved kidnapping."

  4. If you believe Eric S. Raymond by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you deserve to get gang raped by the prison guard homosexuals that you no doubt will end up serving.