:Microsoft "Deep Throat" leaks Microsoft Open Source internal strategy memorandum
Microsoft "Deep Throat" leaks Microsoft Open Source internal strategy memorandum Nov 1, 1998, 21 :55 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5746 reads) (As seen on LWN)
According to the memorandum:
OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft
to understand how to compete against OSS, we must target a process
rather than a company
OSS is long-term credible ... FUD tactics can not be used to combat it
Linux and other OSS advocates are making a progressively more credible
argument that OSS
software is at least as robust ¨C if not more ¨C than commercial
alternatives
Linux can win as long as services / protocols are commodities
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server
applications because of the wide utility
of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these
protocols and developing new protocols,
we can deny OSS projects entry into the market
The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ
of thousands of individuals
across the Internet is simply amazing. More importantly, OSS
evangelization scales with the size of the
Internet much faster than our own evangelization efforts appear to
scale
