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Halloween Documents
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n. A pair of Microsoft internal strategy memoranda leaked to ESR in late
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1998 that confirmed everybody's paranoia about the current Evil Empire.
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These documents praised the technical excellence of Linux and outlined a
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counterstrategy of attempting to lock in customers by de-commoditizing
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Internet protocols and services. They were extensively cited on the Internet
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and in the press and proved so embarrassing that Microsoft PR barely said a
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word in public for six months afterwards.
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