Holloween II: Microsoft Plugs Linux

http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html is a more extensive, (positively
glowing) freshly smuggled (planted?) internal analysis of Linux by
Microsoft.

103k, but definitely worth reading.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

If you liked Eric's halloween.html, you'll this one too -- chock full
of hilarious Microsoft misunderstandings about Linux.

  > http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html is a more extensive...
  > internal analysis of Linux by Microsoft.

Naughty boy, Robert -- now you've made me get coffee all over my
keyboard:

  "The GCC and PERL language compilers are often provided for free
   with all versions of Linux...
   By the standards of the ... developer accustomed to VB [Visual
   Basic], these tools are incredibly primitive."

ROTFL!  This is obviously a hitherto unknown meaning for the word
"primitive".

OTOH, Vinod and Josh summarise things pretty well.
Well worth reading (but read halloween.html first).

I thought the name Vinod Vallopillil was familiar as of someone who was on
cpunks for a while, in 1995.   If my memory serves me well, I think it was him
who for a while he had this idea of putting together some learning
lectures/sessions locally on economics.   I expressed interest, but then he left
for school again (he was an intern at MS at the time).   I checked the archives
for his name, and found some of his posts on "credit card conventional wisdom".
This is what was on his sig in a 1995:

LibertarianismTelecommunicationsFreeMarketEnvi
 ronmentalismTechnologyCryptographyElectronicCa
 shInteractiveTelevisionEconomicsPhilosophyDigi
 talPrivacyAnarchoCapitalismRuggedIndividualism

   ..
Blanc