From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 2 06:49:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22649 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:49:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles227.castles.com [208.214.165.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22619 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:48:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10912; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 06:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811021447.GAA10912@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The halloween document again. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Nov 1998 04:00:18 PST." <23816.910008018@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 06:47:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. It's also much more consistent with Microsoft's internal culture as I've studied it than is esr's set of presumptions. His markup is actually kinda interesting, in that it's clear that he got bored/disinterested/the munchies about halfway through, because there are a lot of really significant points that he simply ignores in the latter half of the "document". He does have one good point; if Microsoft persist in their already-manifest policy of "dec-commoditising" protocol information (as a facet of using their monopoly position to control the market), then we do face a truly desperate battle to continue to interoperate in a useful fashion. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message