Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

[Stefan Nobis <snobis@usa.net>]

Dave McFadden <mctech@galstar.com> writes:

> If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP
> and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around
> them.

Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the 
SAMBA project. If MS really managed to decommoditize open standards -
don't you think there are enough developers which are able to copy
these new properitary protocols?

And when MS makes first tries in this direction and when they see, the 
OSS comunity will just fake what they are developing, i'm not sure if
MS will continue on this way.

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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.