Well it looks as if it wasn't a hoax.  http://www.slashdot.org confirmed
that the Wall Street Journal called Eric Steven Raymond (ESR).  The memo
written by someone in Microsoft confirms they're worried about open source
software such as linux, it's growth, and it's potential threat to NT.  

The trouble is, open source software is so contratry to their business
model they don't know how to combat it - although they'll probably try.

Check out:

The annotated memo posting by ESR
<http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html> 

The news.com article
<http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28215,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh>

or read about it tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal.

Marty


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