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Halloween I: Open Source Software–A (New?) Development Methodology
Halloween II: Linux OS Competitive Analysis: The Next Java VM?
Halloween III: Microsoft's reaction on the "Halloween Memorandum" (sic)
Halloween IV: When Software Things Were Rotten: Vinod Vallopillil's boss calls us "Robin Hood and his merry band." We return the compliment.
Halloween V: The FUD Begins!: The Sheriff of Nottingham rides again. In this exciting episode, the things he doesn't say are more interesting than the things he does.
Halloween VI: The Fatal Anniversary: First Mindcraft, now the Gartner Group–Microsoft leaves a trail of shattered credibility behind it.
Halloween VII: Survey Says!: Microsoft's own marketing research tells it that the FUD is backfiring.
Halloween VIII: Doing the Damage-Control Dance: Microsoft tries to develop an emergency-response team to cope with Linux conversion announcements
Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO: A point-by-point rebuttal of the amended complaint.
Halloween X: Follow The Money: In which we learn the extent of SCO's sock-puppet relationship to its master in Redmond.
Halloween XI:
Get The FUD: Microsoft's "Get The Facts" campaign
is very revealing, including some revelations Microsoft would
probably prefer remained concealed.
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