🚀 go-pugleaf

Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Microsoft has acknowledged its authenticity. At least that 
was what the Boston Globe reported this morning.