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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The Mozilla Phoenix Browser

[Anonymous Coward]

I downloaded the Phoenix browser the other day. It's OK - but a few questions for you nerds:

-Why does it need 18M - 30M just to run?
-Why didn't they use the standard MS Windows components? Their cheap replacements are slow to respond and draw.

Otherwise it is pretty nice, aside from not being able to display all the pages (it does show the MS Developer Network pages though -- albeit, slowly).

Thanks in advance for your responses to my queries.

Re:The Mozilla Phoenix Browser

[Anonymous Coward]

This site is news for nerds, stuff that matter ---> SO I ask this: how can a post asking a question about open source be offtopic? It is a nerdic type thing that matters.

The moderators are out of control!

first post

[Anonymous Coward]

first post?
first post?
first post?

Re:first post

[Anonymous Coward]

You are the failure! You lame ass sack no-first-post-gettin ass fuckin shit! You fail it!

Re: first post

[Anonymous Coward]

first post?
first post?
first post?

The answers to your questions are no, no, and no, respectively.

Ok but does that come with Anal?

[troll314]

hmm.. ok so if i was really hot would you score me? i think you are nice.. my variables burn for you... nothing gayer than slashdot on a saturday evening.. FUCK I NEED A FUCKING FUCK FUCK ASS LIFE

I AGREE WITH THIS POST

[Anonymous Coward]

See subject.

www.microsoft.com!!!! ti is teh sh1tz

Re:Lots of reasons why I want Microsoft to fail

[Anonymous Coward]

thankyou to all my moderators - i believe this to be the closest to a FP +5 Insightful fail.net post yet. although i did have to change the topic from ".NET" to "microsoft" to get it on-topic. sorry to you purists.

to the other AC fail.NETers my message is "DO BETTER!"

OMG i just ejaculated!

[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:Lots of reasons why I want Microsoft to fail

[Anonymous Coward]

congratulations on your perfect score compardre

MOD PARENT DOWN !!

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the most inflammatory post I have seen

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