[cumbria_lug] Re: Cumbria Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5

[Russ Phillips]

cumbria-request at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Saunders [mailto:mike at aster.fsnet.co.uk]
>>
>>>Makes me suspicious of what their *real* motivations are.

There's an interesting theory on E-Week:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1562330,00.asp

<quote>
Thus, Microsoft's open-source code will work only on 
Microsoft-proprietary XML to produce Microsoft-proprietary installation 
programs. With open source like this, who needs proprietary programs?
</quote>

Apparently, the 1998 Halloween memo talked about doing this sort of 
thing as part of MS's plans to de-rail open source. I don't know if the 
writer has worked out what MS is up to, but he puts forward an 
interesting and plausible theory.

Russ