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Dave Stutz's Parting Advice To Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lose-the-toupee dept.

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.)

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  1. Interestingly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  3. Altruism by Radical+Rad · · Score: 5, Funny
    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!

  4. Re:Exploiting MS�s Fundamental Error by Poeir · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  5. Hypocrit by stepson · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Summary: "Hey Microsoft: Embrace Open Source" by Zenjive · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    That would be the "No Homers" clause.

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  7. Re:Can I complain to Yahoo about MSN??? by actor_au · · Score: 2, Funny

    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....

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  8. Re:Microsoft cannot innovate by Gruuk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I disagree.

    They created all of MS Bob, you know.

    See? They did invent something. :)

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  9. Re:And what has come out of this? by hobo2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well paladium is coming soon....

    <ducks>