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

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).

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.