Dave Stutz's Parting Advice To Microsoft

thasmudyan writes "Like probably many others I followed the recent link to Heise only to get a much more interesting story than the one about Mozilla/OpenOffice: Dave Stutz, an influencial guy at Microsoft, is resigning his position. He posted an open letter to his ex-employer and this rest of the world, explaining what MS is doing wrong in his opinion. I thought it made an interesting read, maybe Open Source projects should consider some of the key points (as MS seems to be too slow to adapt, it may be good time to move faster than 'the industry')." (Read this Slashdot post from 2001 to see an interesting interview with Stutz about "shared source" and .NET.)

Comments

Big Yawn!!!

[Destroyed]

This guy has an ego problem. The whole world has to know why HE'S quiting? A lot of people "oppose" what MS is doing. So what? I cant believe he HAD to type all that BS. Of couse it's all like - the molecular structure of the photon is perpendicular to I am smart, I know all - crap. Look pal nobody will remember you or your BS article. It's my opinion that this guy is a complainer/whiner and I hate those types more then MS. Oh yeah fok MS!

Re:Summary: "Hey Microsoft: Embrace Open Source"

[ergo98]

Could someone tell me why this guy left Microsoft? While others seem to take parting blows as words of wisdom, cynicism has me taking them more as vengeful potshots, basically taking whatever position is opposite of the "enemy" (which becomes the employer when someone is forced out/fired).

You grew up. . .

[kfg]

watching Rainbow Brite, didn't you? Come on, you're among (cough) friends. You can admit it.

KFG

Re:Lots of reasons why I want Microsoft to fail

[tshak]

+5 Interesting - I'd buy that because it's interesting discussion. +5 Insightful? Please, there's too much anti-MS, anti-corporation, communisitic BS in this post to give it an Insightful rating.