“In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless. I annotated this memorandum with explanation and commentary over Halloween Weekend and released it to the national press. Microsoft was forced to acknowledge its authenticity. The press rightly treated it as a major story and covered it (with varying degrees of cluefulness).”

  • @TCB13
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    91 year ago

    And that document they started a crusade to twist and manufacture an entire development ecosystem that makes people hostage. Eg. VScode: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/