Microsoft “Deep Throat” leaks Microsoft Open Source internal strategy memorandum

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

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