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Encyclopedia: Halloween documents

The first Halloween document, requested by senior vice-president James 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 has since admitted the documents' authenticity ^[1].

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How to say "Halloween documents" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	万圣节文件
	(Japanese)	ハロウィーン文書
	(German)	Halloween-Dokumente
	(Spanish)	Documentos Halloween
	(Italian)	Halloween Documents

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Halloween document

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Open Source Initiative

. The Open Source Initiative was able to publish a number of internal Microsoft memos, the Halloween documents, that showed Microsoft was an opponent of GNU/Linux and suggested various methods of...

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FUD

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Red Hat

result is rapid innovation (compare the Halloween documents). Red Hat solutions combine Linux...

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Embrace and extend

policies include the Halloween documents, a series of confidential, internal Microsoft memos related... inferred from the documents about Microsoft's strategies is up to debate. To some, particularly Eric S. Raymond, these documents constitute incontrovertible proof of Microsoft's unfair business...

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Common criticisms of Microsoft

] The Halloween documents, internal Microsoft memos which were leaked to the open source community... downplay or ignore open source software, the Halloween documents acknowledge the technical superiority of.... For example, macros embedded in documents or HTML in email can run programs allowing an attacker to...

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Halloween

Alternate meanings: Halloween (movie) Halloween documents (a series of confidential Microsoft... . Halloween or Hallowe'en is a holiday on the night of October 31 that is celebrated in much of the..., celebrate "Halloween" in quite different ways. Certain customs long surviving in Ireland, were brought to...

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