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

Interestingly...

[Anonymous Coward]

He used a Microsoft security hole to go back in after he left and post it on their website.

Summary: "Hey Microsoft: Embrace Open Source"

[$$$$$exyGal]

Wow. It sounds liks he is advising Microsoft to (among other things) embrace the open source software movement. It's only a matter of time before "Microsoft Linux" is branded.

What would it take to put a clause in the GNU license that says "except Microsoft" ;-). Note that that was a joke.

--sex

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

[Zenjive]

What would it take to put a clause in the GNU license that says "except Microsoft" ;-).

That would be the "No Homers" clause.

About time

[Anonymous Coward]

What was this guy doing at some random company selling windows, desktops and office material? I know it's impressive they can fold windows and even whole offices into small lightweight boxes, but personally I only trust hard heavy furniture.

The first paragraph:

[$$$$$exyGal]

The market for shrink-wrap PC software began its slow upmarket ooze into Christensen obsolescence right around the time that Microsoft really hit its stride. That was also the time of the Internet wave, a phenomenon that Microsoft co-opted without ever really internalizing into product wisdom. While those qualified to move the state of the art forward went down in the millennial flames of the dotcom crash, Microsoft's rigorous belief in the physics of business reality saved both the day and the profits. But the tide had turned, and a realization that "the net" was a far more interesting place than "the PC" began to creep into the heads of consumers and enterprises alike.

Wow. Without reading the rest of the article, would anyone know what that paragraph meant?

--naked

Altruism

[Radical Rad]

disgruntled Microsoft wannabes have poured huge quantities of often inferior, but nonetheless requirements-driven, open source software.

Right. We 'wannabe' wealthy criminals so badly that we offer our work freely to the world.
Step 2: profit!

Re:Exploiting MS�s Fundamental Error

[Poeir]

So maybe he left to be able to spend more time reading Slashdot? Hm... I wonder if he spells Microsoft with a dollar sign.

Hypocrit

[stepson]

I really like this comment of his:

"...and disgruntled Microsoft wannabes have poured huge quantities of often inferior, but nonetheless requirements-driven, open source software"

synthesist.net runs on Apache.

Re:If MS based Windows on Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

where I have to hack the executable binary just to change the label on the "start" button

You are so correct! All versions of windows should come with a big flashing red icon in the middle of the desktop that says "Change start button?" When you press it you should then get some nice GUI wizard that walks you through the process of changing the start button! That would be the best huh! 'Cause we all know that changing the text on the start button is extremely important to not only home users but for end users in the corporate environment also!!

Re:hmmm

[The Bungi]

Personally, I'm waiting for GNU/Windows.

Maybe that will make RMS shave and take a bath.

hmmm i smell ASTROTURFER (move along)

[jumbie]

tshak is IMO a paid microsoft astroturfer.
i've said it before and i'm saying it again.(check my posts)
one day i will write a book,

[rant]

i am the jumbie the troll who watches the Astroturfers but is hampered in her noble policing effort by being limited to just 2 posts a day and karma so low i'm coming back as a tampon.(a hundred curses on my nemisis cowboyoneal and his slashsource)

one day my karma will rise AND YOU WILL RUE THE DAY!

[/rant]

(if you look back on tshaks posts you'll also see he often rises to the 100 reasons i want .NET to fail post)

Re:Can I complain to Yahoo about MSN???

[actor_au]

What are you talking about?

Almost all the MSN portals work in the latest version of Opera, although I have to admit they seem to be in Sweedish for some apparent reason....

Re:Microsoft cannot innovate

[Gruuk]

I disagree.

They created all of MS Bob, you know.

See? They did invent something. :)

Re:And what has come out of this?

[hobo2k]

Well paladium is coming soon....

<ducks>