According to an Aug. 11 white paper, open source software…
“poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to
Microsoft…”
The memo… was posted over the weekend and dubbed “The
Halloween Document”.
“Linux distributors, such as Red Hat, Caldera, and others, are
expressly willing to fund full-time developers who release all
their work to the OSS community. By simultaneously funding these
efforts, Red Hat and Caldera are implicitly colluding and believe
they’ll make more short-term revenue by growing the Linux market
rather than directly competing with each other,” the white paper
states.