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Telepolis: Goliath and his fear of David

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 1998

Thanks to Robert
Whitinger
for the link and translation.

(First paragraph translated:)

Microsoft and Open Software

Microsoft is seeing a threat from Open Software. Two internal
Microsoft memorandums from August of this year were published last
week in the WWW. They contained an analysis of the advantages and
weaknesses of Open Software and recommendations were advanced as to
how Microsoft should respond to this competition.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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