25 years since The Halloween Documents, the Microsoft vs. Linux and Open Source memos

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7333426

“In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless. I annotated this memorandum with explanation and commentary over Halloween Weekend and released it to the national press. Microsoft was forced to acknowledge its authenticity. The press rightly treated it as a major story and covered it (with varying degrees of cluefulness).”

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And bringing the cycle full circle, Microsoft is barreling headstrong into “embrace” to build up leverage and goodwill before fucking everyone over again

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