a paper I can't find...

Vivek J. Patankar vivek.patankar at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 18:39:44 UTC 2007


Mike Chalmers wrote:
> Years ago there was this paper written by a man who lost his job
> because he wrote the paper. The paper was an uproar in the Linux
> community. I cannot remember but I think that the paper was about why
> Microsoft is wrong, among other things concerning Microsoft.
> 
> Can anyone tell me where I can find this paper please, it is pretty
> important that I find it? I know this is the Fedora list, but I don't
> know where else to post on it where I can get a good response.

What you are referring to are probably the famous "Halloween Documents" 
written by Vinod Valloppillil & Josh Cohen that were leaked from 
Microsoft and ultimately wound up with Eric S Raymond who published 
them. Link below

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween

AFAIR, Vinod didn't lose his job because he wrote them. It was an 
assignment of his. He quit MS sometime after they were leaked.

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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