🚀 go-pugleaf

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
>

FYI: Today's (3 Nov) Washington Post Business section, pg. E2, "Microsoft 
Paper Talked of Blunting Rival Threat" by Elizabeth Corcoran:

"Edward Muth, a group product manager at Microsoft who was involved with
the development of Windows 2000, described the document as 'a snapshot in
time of how an engineer - Vinod - saw the issues.'"

it is confirmed... it *is* a Microsoft document... this *is* part of its
corporate think-speak... its actions *are* documented by numerous authors,
articles, books, lawsuits...

the article mentions "blunting OSS attacks...", highlights the
suggestion to pervert established networking protocols for its
advantage...

what do you think is going on with Internet Exploder? why do you think Sun
had to take Microsoft to court about changing Java?

this is interesting history in the making, folks... 

what i find intriguing is the current series of TV ads playing in the
U.S., which shows an unfortunate miscreant of a feral street urchin in a
'touchy feely' Microsoft ad... M$ is throwing millions of dollars into TV
ads, probably working up for the XMas feeding frenzy here in the U.S.