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  1. Re:In Other Words.... by Facetious · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Acknowledges Open Source As a Bigger Threat Than Google
    What motivates you is obviously different than what motivates FOSS developers. As you say,

    My point is, a lot more developers would write OSS if they had financial incentive.
    I urge you to download and listen to this interview with Dan Ariely from MIT wherein he describes his experiments into what motivates people. FOSS is discussed at length and his conclusions are very different from yours.
  2. Microsoft claims to have a huge Linux farm by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 1 · on How Microsoft Inadvertently Helps To Fund FOSS
    @ billosaur

    You wrote:

    Do you think there are people at Microsoft who go home and secretly work Linux by night?
    In an article which recently appeared here on Slashdot, Pamela Jones posted to Groklaw a link to an MP3 (MP3 warning) of a panel discussion of the negotiators for the parties to the Novell - Microsoft deal. One really interesting quip from about three-fourths of the way through the 1.5 hour discussion is an off-hand remark by one of the Microsoft reps to the extent that Microsoft claims to have the largest server farm west of the Rockies.

    I thought that was an odd statement to make. But maybe it's true. After all, Microsoft runs Hotmail on Linux. At least that is what a Microsoft employee told me during a cable car ride on the California cable car line in San Francisco, which runs from near the foot of Market Street (San Francisco's main street) up the hill toward Van Ness on California Street. Supposedly, he took that cable car line to and from work every day, because Microsoft apparently has an office near Spear and Market in San Francisco, according to this guy.

    At any rate to answer your question, there are apparently lots of Microsoft sys admins who are paid to work on Linux during the day. Well, and I'm sure that there are also plenty who are paid to work on Linux during the night, too. After, Microsoft isn't going to trust its mission-critical operations to anything other than the best. snicker.
  3. The citation is in this netcast by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal

    Please read Pamela Jones' referenced article. The quote you are asking about is taken from a netcast linked in the first paragraph in Pamela's article. The page with the link to the netcast is here, clicking on this link will launch the mp3 file with that netcast. Those same links are pasted in their respective orders below, in case any one needs to copy and paste:

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/index.html#osssig-2007-09-26-18-00-48

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MTLC-MS-Novell-2007-09-26.mp3

    One thing that I really liked about this netcast: At one point, one of the Microsoft guys makes a huge concession, without really realizing it, because he states it so much as a matter of fact, and so much as an after thought. He says something like, "yeah, most of the students coming out of university are trained on Linux. I was a computer science student, and so I appreciate how great it is to be able to see the source code."

    As IBM said in its GNU Linux commercials, "the future is open."

    Another interesting thing: one of the Microsoft guys says "We've got the largest Linux server farm west of the Rockies!" All of these quotes are summaries, not verbatim quotes. Listen for yourself if you want the exact quote.

    And yet another interesting quote by one of the Microsoft guys. "We walk around talking to our engineers, and they say, 'open source is such a cool way to get feedback. No wonder developers like to work in an open source environment.' " Again, that is a summary. Please listen for yourself to get the exact quote.

  4. The citation is in this netcast by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal

    Please read Pamela Jones' referenced article. The quote you are asking about is taken from a netcast linked in the first paragraph in Pamela's article. The page with the link to the netcast is here, clicking on this link will launch the mp3 file with that netcast. Those same links are pasted in their respective orders below, in case any one needs to copy and paste:

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/index.html#osssig-2007-09-26-18-00-48

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MTLC-MS-Novell-2007-09-26.mp3

    One thing that I really liked about this netcast: At one point, one of the Microsoft guys makes a huge concession, without really realizing it, because he states it so much as a matter of fact, and so much as an after thought. He says something like, "yeah, most of the students coming out of university are trained on Linux. I was a computer science student, and so I appreciate how great it is to be able to see the source code."

    As IBM said in its GNU Linux commercials, "the future is open."

    Another interesting thing: one of the Microsoft guys says "We've got the largest Linux server farm west of the Rockies!" All of these quotes are summaries, not verbatim quotes. Listen for yourself if you want the exact quote.

    And yet another interesting quote by one of the Microsoft guys. "We walk around talking to our engineers, and they say, 'open source is such a cool way to get feedback. No wonder developers like to work in an open source environment.' " Again, that is a summary. Please listen for yourself to get the exact quote.

  5. The citation is in this netcast by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal

    Please read Pamela Jones' referenced article. The quote you are asking about is taken from a netcast linked in the first paragraph in Pamela's article. The page with the link to the netcast is here, clicking on this link will launch the mp3 file with that netcast. Those same links are pasted in their respective orders below, in case any one needs to copy and paste:

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/index.html#osssig-2007-09-26-18-00-48

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MTLC-MS-Novell-2007-09-26.mp3

    One thing that I really liked about this netcast: At one point, one of the Microsoft guys makes a huge concession, without really realizing it, because he states it so much as a matter of fact, and so much as an after thought. He says something like, "yeah, most of the students coming out of university are trained on Linux. I was a computer science student, and so I appreciate how great it is to be able to see the source code."

    As IBM said in its GNU Linux commercials, "the future is open."

    Another interesting thing: one of the Microsoft guys says "We've got the largest Linux server farm west of the Rockies!" All of these quotes are summaries, not verbatim quotes. Listen for yourself if you want the exact quote.

    And yet another interesting quote by one of the Microsoft guys. "We walk around talking to our engineers, and they say, 'open source is such a cool way to get feedback. No wonder developers like to work in an open source environment.' " Again, that is a summary. Please listen for yourself to get the exact quote.

  6. The citation is in this netcast by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal

    Please read Pamela Jones' referenced article. The quote you are asking about is taken from a netcast linked in the first paragraph in Pamela's article. The page with the link to the netcast is here, clicking on this link will launch the mp3 file with that netcast. Those same links are pasted in their respective orders below, in case any one needs to copy and paste:

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/index.html#osssig-2007-09-26-18-00-48

    http://www.peapodcast.com/msc-oss-sig/MTLC-MS-Novell-2007-09-26.mp3

    One thing that I really liked about this netcast: At one point, one of the Microsoft guys makes a huge concession, without really realizing it, because he states it so much as a matter of fact, and so much as an after thought. He says something like, "yeah, most of the students coming out of university are trained on Linux. I was a computer science student, and so I appreciate how great it is to be able to see the source code."

    As IBM said in its GNU Linux commercials, "the future is open."

    Another interesting thing: one of the Microsoft guys says "We've got the largest Linux server farm west of the Rockies!" All of these quotes are summaries, not verbatim quotes. Listen for yourself if you want the exact quote.

    And yet another interesting quote by one of the Microsoft guys. "We walk around talking to our engineers, and they say, 'open source is such a cool way to get feedback. No wonder developers like to work in an open source environment.' " Again, that is a summary. Please listen for yourself to get the exact quote.

  7. Re:MS Trolls/Fanbois/Employees by Spoing · · Score: 1 · on KOffice Developers Reply to Yates
    Because while most of the /. community is in favor of OpenDoc and OpenThis and OpenThat, everyone else just wants their shit to work. And that's exactly what Microsoft provides.

    It's not that simple. Go listen to this.