The real story here is that the information in the article was stolen from the Independent Institute and somehow ended up in the hands of (to quote the NYT article) "a Microsoft adversary associated with the computer industry who refused to be further identified." Talk about dirty tricks. Check out the Institute's response to the NYT at http://www.independent.org/tii/news/990919Theroux. html
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The real story here is that the information in the article was stolen from the Independent Institute and somehow ended up in the hands of (to quote the NYT article) "a Microsoft adversary associated with the computer industry who refused to be further identified." Talk about dirty tricks. Check out the Institute's response to the NYT at http://www.independent.org/tii/news/990919Theroux. html