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A confidential Microsoft memorandum on its strategy on Open source software leaked to Eric Raymond in October 1998, along with the Hallowe'en II memorandum which dealt with Linux.

These documents acknowledged the technical superiority of Open Source/Free Software/Linux to some of Microsoft's products, and set out a strategy to combat them. The documents were embarrassing largely because they contradicted Microsoft's public pronouncements on the subject.

External link:

http://www.opensource.org/halloween/

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