"No Institution or Project is Too Small to Evade Their Interference and Scrutiny"
"The political world is being divvied up electronically and voices for FOSS have been excluded from the discussions to the point they are not even on the radar," an associate writes today. "That was/is the apparent goal in cancelling Eben Moglen, RMS, and others."
"Remember that Microsoft taistolaiset-like strategy is that no institution or project is too small to evade their interference and scrutiny."
"See what has become of the OSI and Ubuntu / Canonical etc. [Here's] one example" ("Hundreds of Tech Companies Want to Cash In on Homeland Security Funding. Here's Who They Are and What They're Selling.") █
"Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's technology part of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to place selection pressure on those companies and individuals that show a genetic weakness for competitors' technologies, to make the industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time."
-Microsoft, internal document [PDF]