Mike --

Verrrrryyyyy INTerestinggggggg.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:18 PM -0000 11/3/98, wirth at almaden.ibm.com wrote:
>Dan Gillmor had an interesting column in the San Jose Mercury News this
>morning, "Microsoft wary of open source, embedded systems", which you can
>find at:
>
>     http://www.mercurycenter.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg110398.htm
>
>
>
>He discusses a purported internal MS whitepaper on Open Source Software
>(called "OSS" in the whitepaper :-) which was leaked by Eric Raymond as
>"The Halloween Document".  You can find it, along with Eric's analysis and
>marginal comments (with ongoing updates, now at version 1.4) at:
>
>     http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html
>
>
>
>Eric's comments include a reference to Squeak:
>
>"This prediction is of a piece with the author's earlier assertion that
>open-source development relies critically on design precedents and is
>unavoidably backward-looking. It's myopic -- apparently things like Python,
>Beowulf, and Squeak (to name just three of hundreds of innovative projects)
>don't show on his radar."
>
>
>
>Enjoy,
>
>
>
>Mike Wirth
>
><usual disclaimers>