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Re: Microsoft declares war against the Internet

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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:27:43 -0500, Mark <ubercat@m3.sprynet.com> wrote:
>Jonathan Apfelkern wrote in message ...
>>Microsoft declares war against open protocols, and thus
>>against open source software and the internet.
>>http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html

>Nice to see the OSS community is as able bodied when it comes to FUD as
>M$.  Nothing in this article is directly tied to M$. ( yet ) Until
>then, comments like the one in this post are pure, unadulterated FUD

I find it quite interesting that there has been *no* comment as to how
ESR wound up with the document that he then comments on.

All said, the document has the *feel* of being what a group at Microsoft
would write.  It doesn't read like a bad parody.  If it's a fake, it is
a carefully crafted fake that *could* be true. 

-- 
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and those who can't.  There is a constant, pitched battle between the
two camps."  --Russ Nelson (Linux Kernel Summary, Ver. 1.1.75 -> 1.1.76)
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From: cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Microsoft declares war against the Internet
Date: 1998/11/03
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