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From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: MSFUD
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:01:53 -0400

Looks like Microsoft has jumped on the "loudly misunderstand open
source" bandwagon.

http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html

My favorite line, in response to Craig Mundie's speech, comes from
Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM:

"If we thought this was a trap, we wouldn't be doing it, and as you
know, we have a lot of lawyers."

S

--
"Euphoria is not a business strategy" -- Louis Rossetto

MSFUD, Steven Champeon, 05/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: MSFUD, Paul Jones, 05/03/2001
- Re: MSFUD, Steven Champeon, 05/03/2001
- RE: MSFUD, Paula Paul, 05/03/2001
- RE: MSFUD, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, 05/04/2001
- Re: MSFUD, Michael S Czeiszperger, 05/04/2001
- Re: MSFUD, Beth Ellison, 05/04/2001
- Re: MSFUD, Beth Ellison, 05/04/2001
- Re: MSFUD, Jim Campbell, 05/05/2001