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.)

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[OT/Meta] Karma vs. Fans

[Hentai]

Out of curiosity (and I humbly apologize for being off-topic here), are fan-lists replacing karma as /.'s sense of 'leetness'? I'm seeing less and less "karma-whoring" and karma-based metatalk, and more and more discussions about friends/fanlists. Are we looking at a second generation of Slashdot society?

If so, cool. Karma should be about how well your posts foster the community; friends/foes should be about whether people agree with/like what your posts are saying.

*looks at his 'fans' list* gee. That's sobering.

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

[timmyf2371]

IMHO, the NT 5 kernel isn't as bad as some of us would make out - yes it has its faults, as does the BSD and even the Linux kernel.

Anyone care to post an *objective* view explaining failings in the NT kernel and also the failings in *nix based kernels?

Tim