Today’s word-of-the-day (or, I suppose, phrase-of-the-day) is from Eric S. Raymond’s report on The Halloween Documents VIII, about a leaked memo from Microsoft showing their concern of open source:
Everybody remember the Gandhi quote?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Gentlemen and ladies, this newest leaked memo from Microsoft confirms that we are advancing through GandhiCon Three. […]
The set of leaked memos (there are eight now) are so-called because the first one was leaked right around Halloween. If you haven’t read them before, they provide keen insight into Microsoft’s thought process on open source. And the interspersed commentary from ESR makes for an interesting read.