Re: [TCLUG:5120] Microsoft open to opensource for Windows?

["Vince Platt" <Vince.Platt@Born.com>]

To be honest, they do seem pretty good about reporting things not
favorable to MS's public image.  Of course, I own stock, so I must be
brainwashed too.  NOT!

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Middleton <middle@cs.umn.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:5120] Microsoft open to opensource for Windows?


Linuxworld is good but I consider m$nbc a tainted source. ;-)

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John R Sheets wrote:

> Dan Middleton wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I typically don't buy anything that doesn't come with some
> > verifiable source (eg actual newspaper issue or url to a reliable
source
> > like cnn.com).
>
> Is LinuxWorld and MSNBC good enough for ya?  (c:  I didn't
> believe it either, but I've seen it in 3 different online news
> sites so far.  (The LinuxWorld article is just a reprint of the
> InfoWorld article that Bob forwarded.)
>
>
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-microsoft.html?04-07
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/257224.asp
>
> The media event seems to be genuine.  As far as the true motive
> of Microsoft, I'm still highly skeptical.  They'll probably just
> release a few minor modules, of academic interest only.  My guess
> is that they were waiting to see how Apple's ASPL thing went, and
> are now trying to hedge their bet (as per the MS corporate policy
> guidelines).  (c:
>
> John
>
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