There is a new book on the way that purports to be the see-all-tell-all dirty history of Linux. The truth is that there really isn't one (it is really hard to get the members of an anarchy to 'conspire', you see, because first they would have to agree about something to conspire about ...)
In any case, this article gives a pretty good summary about what a hatchet-job it really was. Interesting reading even if you're not particularly technically-minded.
The latest spam received here has a new theme: "if you received this, your spam filter isn't working, and so you should buy one from us!"
I believe we have a new winner in the chutzpah sweepstakes.
(Note to the curious: on this system, the email was indeed trapped by my spam filter; I only looked at the content to see if it really did contain what I suspected it contained. Sadly enough, I was right.)