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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: The halloween document again.
In-Reply-To: <19981103101021.H354@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 3, 98 10:10:21 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:08:08 -0800 (PST)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
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	its FUD....genuine microsoft FUD.


	microsoft is in the middle of alawsuit with the federal
	gov't, perhaps the only organization with enough money and
	lawyers to beat them in court.  the greatest possible, not
	most probable,  danger to microsoft is that hte company
	will be split into an OS branch and an applications branch
	(cf ATT and the baby bells)

	
        to disprove the gov'ts case, microsoft will take action 
        vigorously in and out of court.  the Vinod Valloppillil is
        an example.  witness these two quotes in the news.com
        article
        (http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh):
 
1.      "Clearly, there is real and tangible competition in the
         operating systems market and as a company that makes
         operating systems, Microsoft is clearly paying attention," 
         said spokesman Adam Sohn. "We're examining competitive  
         issues all the time."   
 
2.      "Relative to other OSS projects, Mozilla is considered to be
         one of the most direct, near-term attacks on the Microsoft        
         establishment. This factor alone is probably a key galvanizing 
         factor in motivating developers towards the Mozilla   
         codebase," the memo says. "The availability of Mozilla    
         source code has renewed Netscape's credibility in the    
         browser space to a small degree."     
     
         Please dont find against us judge, we cant barely defend 
         ourselves against this new threat...... ;)


jmb

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