Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP
and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around
them.
Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the
SAMBA project. If MS really
Stefan Nobis wrote:
Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP
and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around
them.
How does HTML and TCP/IP depends on Java? Java will only be
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:48:31AM -0500, John Forest wrote:
While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe
the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html
He makes the point that
At 11:46 PM 11/7/98 +1100, Hamish Moffat wisely observed:
He makes the point that IBM developed Token Ring to decommodize Ethernet.
That may be true, but Token Ring was a better system than Ethernet. As
MCA is/was better than ISA. Both of these lost out because they required
licensing. Is there
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. said
chuck asked,
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential?
Is the Wall Street Journal a good enough
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:28:45AM -0200, Vera Lucia Mazzocchi wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that
is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they
think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing
such
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 05:02:43PM +, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
not it's from MS, and if it is it
On 6 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: A == AJT60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:
: A On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
:
: M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$ memo. See slashdot for
: the pointer.
:
: A Also, it's unlikely that this was deliberatly leaked
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:25:27PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, it's unlikely that this was deliberatly leaked by microsoft
(IMHO), because it's not exactly good publicity for them. Far more PR
damage is possible because of (admittedly somewhat backhanded) admissions
of how well
NEN == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NEN Never assume that people, especially management, are rational.
Well, I am studying economics. I hope me and others can turn this
around sometime in the future :-)
This semester, I have lectures in decision theory. On base of rational
Hello,
rick wrote:
chuck asked,
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
...
There's enough in there contrary to the ms party line that it's quite
clear that it's confidential.
Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked
intentionally...
Hello,
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote:
... [extra level of indenting still Jiri]
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
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:09:54PM +0100, Roberto Ripio wrote:
El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió:
http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html
Very interesting. I can't believe they describe Gimp 1.0 as Paintbrush.
At least they weren't stupid enough to say nasty things about
On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 11:14:47AM +, Jiri Baum wrote:
Just because it's confidential doesn't mean it wasn't leaked
intentionally... Say with a view of getting some feedback on their
analysis from us. Perhaps unlikely, but possible.
Indeed. The memo mentions that they have list archives
Hi,
While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe
the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html
Got that from http://slashdot.org
John.
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,
Hi,
I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that
is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they
think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing
such document, or allowing somebody to have access and releasing it.
Vera Lucia Mazzocchi said
Hi,
I was thinking if this document wasn't released purposely, that
is, let them know only what we want they know and let's see what they
think about. Seems to me that M$ might be playing with us, releasing
such document, or allowing somebody to have
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential?
It was confirmed by MS. See slashdot.org
chuck asked,
Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential?
Is the Wall Street Journal a good enough source? :) Tuesday morning's
WSJ
s == stick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
s has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
s not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly confidential?
M$ had confirmed, that this document is a M$
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
s == stick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s Me too! I'm usually a very cautious person...How do we *know* that this
s has even originated from MicroSoft? So there is the issue of whether or
s not it's from MS, and if it is it it truly
Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page
and some of you might be intersted in reading it.
Cheers,
Chad
This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future
issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The
El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió:
Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page
and some of you might be intersted in reading it.
This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future
issue of Open
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