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Open source wasn't exactly a huge priority for Microsoft in 1995 when the application came into existence. In fact I think it's a testament to their backwards
by Firehed 14y ago
Open source wasn't exactly a huge priority for Microsoft in 1995 when the application came into existence. In fact I think it's a testament to their backwards compatibility that pinball survived for as long as it did with little or no maintenance.
- yuhong 14y agoIn fact, I don't think the term even existed back then.
- rbanffy 14y agoQuite the opposite. In 1995, killing open source was one of Microsoft's top priorities. It isn't much lower on the list these days.
- Luyt 14y agoIndeed, and it was still on their agenda in 1998. Microsoft saw Linux as their worst enemy and developed business strategies to eradicate it (by means of 'de-commoditizing'). Then, the 'Halloween Documents' leaked. ESR writes: "In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond's strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless." This document can be read at http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html Read more at http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/