Hello, Roberto Ripio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribi¢: ... | >This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future | >issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The hosting WWW site ... | As published, the document is edited by Eric S. Raymond, who has | added very interesting comments. As has been pointed previously by | other list members (thanks to them!) it can also be reached at | <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html> .
I've read the document last night, and I thought it hovered somewhat uncertainly between Microsoft-bashing and traditional Internet giving-kudos-where-kudos-are-due, between treating Microsoft as the enemy and considering it a member of the comunity. Compare, for instance, "This is an interestingly arrogant comment." vs "Wow. This is an insight I never had". Hmm, here's a thought: how about re-doing the comments in the "giving kudos and constructive criticism" style, and sending it to MS? That'd confuse 'em. Say like this: --c-- < This is a classic play out of the Microsoft handbook. -- > While this appears at first sight to be a classic play out of the > Microsoft handbook, there is a subtle but very important > distinction. By releasing the source code, the program is > immediately useful to a much wider audience than a binary-only > distribution could be, due to the ability of the users to extend or > modify it according to their immediate requirements. -- (OK, so it's my first try at this.) I don't think it could do any harm, because they can understand ESR's comments just as well as we can anyway. There's no call to be nasty. Does that make sense? Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
