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SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 22:39:13 JST SuperDicq

Today we celebrate Halloween, this holiday is named after the codenamed "Halloween Documents" from Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
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  Halloween documents
  
  The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were published by open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond in 1998. The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were originally leaked close to October 31 in different years. Overview The first Halloween document, requested by senior vice-president Jim Allchin for the attention of senior vice-president Paul Maritz and written by Microsoft program manager Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric Raymond in October 1998, who immediately published an annotated version on his web site. The document contained references to a second memorandum specifically dealing with Linux, and that document, authored by Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen at Microsoft, was also obtained, annotated and published by Raymond. Microsoft later acknowledged the documents' authenticity. Marked "Microsoft confidential", the documents identified open-source software, and...
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 22:43:02 JST 翠星石
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  @SuperDicq >"open source" was only a thing since earlier in that year.
  >As it was internal documents, they actually named the GNU, but of course they smeared the freedom several times.
  https://www.gnu.org/software/fsfe/projects/ms-vs-eu/halloween1.html
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    The Open Source Initiative: Halloween Document 1
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  SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 22:44:12 JST SuperDicq
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  @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Well the documents got leaked by Eric Raymond so you know the deal...
  
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 22:46:55 JST 翠星石
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  @SuperDicq As far as I can tell, that part was written by microsoft employees, but I'm not sure what changes Eric Raymond made.
  
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