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That's interesting.. Where do you draw the line as far as Microsoft relatedness goes? Is your motivation more to make sure you never contribute to Microsoft goa
by tinco 13y ago
That's interesting.. Where do you draw the line as far as Microsoft relatedness goes? Is your motivation more to make sure you never contribute to Microsoft goals, or is it actually never to be exposed to Microsoft technology yourself?
Is there something Microsoft affected you personally with or is it their business practices in general?
- steveklabnik 13y agoMicrosoft attempted to destroy humanity's crowning achievement (so far): the World Wide Web. Totally unforgivable. Now: people sometimes use Microsoft products, and they're often beginners. I will write software that runs on Windows, as that's often the people who need help the most. But contributing directly to a Microsoft product is too much for me.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoGermany attempted once to take over Europe and lots of people died. Totally unforgivable. Now: people sometimes visit Germany, and they're often just tourists. I will build things for Germans, as that makes me money. But contributing directly to Germany is too much for me.
- steveklabnik 13y agoI too enjoy absurd comparisons.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoWell, stop judging the Microsoft of today with the one of yesterday. Many of us worker bees never went through that time period, and we really are just trying to build better things.
- steveklabnik 13y agoComparing "embrace, extend, extinguish" to the Holocaust isn't exactly helping me not judge you.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI was just invoking Goodwin's law earlier rather than later.
- pbsdp 13y agoYour management hasn't really changed. I grew up with MS in the 80s and 90s -- I'm not quick to forgive a monopoly that set the whole industry back by 10 years.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoSo what does senior management have to do with this? Just crap on any peon at MS who wants to engage with open source doesn't really hurt them.
- pbsdp 13y agoThe peon actively chose to work there and participate in Microsoft's attempts to dismantle any competition in any field they enter through highly questionable tactics.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoSo Machiavellian huh? Such cynicism and paranoia just breeds an equal amount of such on our side. It makes it that much harder for those of us who wish to engage and do good in the OSS community.
- pbsdp 13y agoI'm not really sure what you could possibly expect after MS spent most of the natural lifetime of this industries senior developers' behaving badly.
- tinco 13y agoRather weak response. You could also have said why you think Microsoft either hasn't changed, or that regardless of having changed hasn't earned their respect yet. Now the thread is just worthless.