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To: JC Jaros who wrote (22092)	11/1/1999 6:45:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Here's a 'Halloween' year over year in review page (nice web page design incidentally, I think, except for the background thing). Also, I think Rick Moen is MUCH more fun to read than Eric Raymond. -JCJ Halloween VI: The Fatal Anniversary It is now just about exactly a year since the Halloween Documents were first released upon an unsuspecting world. Many things have changed; Linux 2.2 has gone from promise to memory, the Halloween Documents' author has quit Microsoft to go to work for a Linux-based startup, mainstream market-research outfits like IDC now predict a 30% server-market share for Linux in the near future, and the first Linux IPO rocketed Red Hat Software to a six-billion-dollar market capitalization. A few things have remained the same; Windows is still buggy and insecure and crash-prone, Windows 2000 still isn't shipping, and Microsoft is still making excuses. opensource.org

To: JC Jaros who wrote (22092)	11/1/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

in actuality, msft has no more an option problem than sun.com does. they are just more VISIBLE. you are correct, this guy has been around for years, and like Cassandra, nobody pays him much attention. And for good reason, I might add.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (22092)	11/1/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Sonki	Respond to of 64865

jcj, cheryl, twister: sunw exercised options. Sunw does not offer their employees stock options just for joining the company. They do this very selectively and only few employees get them based on their performance or at the start of the employment. As such, there is a difference. Some companies offer stock options in lieu of a lower current salary etc .. Many high tech employees would prerfer stock options and take lower salary especially for a start up company. These offerings can diulte the erning later on and show lower expenses at present time.