From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 2 04:00:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA27739 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA27485 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA23821 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 04:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: The halloween document again. Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 04:00:18 -0800 Message-ID: <23816.910008018@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There's another explanation here, and one which I now find most plausible now that I think about it. There really was a group at Microsoft who was tasked with coming up with such a paper, but rather than put in any serious time with it they procrastinated until the last moment and then realized that they needed to generate a position paper on OSS in a real hurry. Since they were then rather too pressed for time to actually install or evaluate any of the offerings (probably also rightly concluding that the suits reading the report wouldn't particularly care about such details anyway), they just prowled around 4 or 5 of the top Linux sites and Eric Raymond's www.opensource.com and put together a pastiche' of all the advocacy they saw there. They probably read a few Linux newsgroups as well, those being the obvious targets with their multi-thousand message counters, and culled some of the "OSS arguments" they saw there. Tada! Result: One paper full of regurgitated Linux advocacy done with all the subtlety of a elementary school student copying a book report out of the encyclopedia at midnight. It's just a theory, but it seems to fit. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message