MS's Hilf Named Windows Server Marketer

netbuzz writes "The director of Microsoft's Open Source Lab, Bill Hilf, has added a new duty — general manager of Windows server marketing — to his already established role of shepherding the company's efforts to have open source software peacefully coexist with Microsoft technologies. What the company calls a 'natural evolution' of Hilf's job description may not be considered quite so natural among segments of the open source community that eye every Microsoft move with suspicion if not hostility." Bill Hilf answered Slashdot's questions two years back and sounded quite friendly to OSS; yet at other times he has come off like a hardcore Microsoftie.

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[Doc Ruby]

Vitriol? It's the truth. And that's what the City Council, like the rest of my serious clients over many years, have me around for. For years, since I helped them become a full committee, with a budget and oversight of NYC's huge IT department.

What do you know of MS execs? Have you ever even met one directly? I bet not. I have, more than one, and this guy was the Chief Security Officer for the entire MS corporation. What about NYC? Have you ever even been here? Been in a City Council committee meeting, whether public or private? Do you even understand that "a city council" like NYC is responsible for security for 10 million people every day, including the UN, 3 giant airports, the country's largest seaport, a $50 BILLION annual city budget? I didn't ask for a "supercoder", but someone who knew something meaningful about security, like what MS did about it six months before under his predecessor would have been reassuring from their Chief Security Officer.

I say you're just talking out of your ass, from someplace tiny that you think is big and "serious", because you don't know what "big and serious" really is. That's not just "vitriol". That's what you get when you push naive BS like that, contradicting a New Yorker like me, who knows the truth, and knows that you don't. Just don't bother telling me that you're in marketing or something like that. Even if you're really a "supercoder".