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Halloween II: Another MS Memo is leaked

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 1998

(Thanks to Jonathan Corbet
of LWN
for this link.)

From Eric Raymond’s website:

” The now-infamous “Halloween Document” contained references
to a second memorandum specifically on Linux. Within days, copies
of the second memo had been forwarded to me from two separate
sources. I renamed the first annotated version “Halloween I” and
set about annotating the second. While not as dramatic or sinister
in its implications as its predecessor, Halloween II includes a lot
of material at variance with Microsoft’s public party line on
Linux. “

Halloween
II

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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