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Alan Cox’s take on ALS and the Halloween Document

This is the must-read for the day–not the least juicy morsel
being his disclosure that Microsoft recently tried to hire him.

“… the Computing Press missed perhaps the most telling aspect
of the entire document. They talk about ‘de commoditizing
protocols’ or in plain language using private protocols not open
standards to lock people into their products.”

Read Alan Cox’s
editorial
.

Thanks to subhas for telling us about this one.

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