In article <1772164.G6hq2n4TWC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> FWIW, there is an interesting perspective about it at:
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3268188983.html
Quote from that article:
Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder, established the Experience Music
Project museum in Seattle with its focus on the guitar god. Charles
Simonyi, a billionaire software developer who can take much of the
credit for Word and Excel, is working towards a 2007 trip to the space
station. And, perhaps the most unlikely activity of them all for an
ex-Micosoftie, Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at
Microsoft, is the CEO of Ohloh, an open-source startup out of Bellevue
Wash.
I think the author is a bit out of touch with the industry, if he thinks
this is perhaps the most unlikely of all. When you get out of the small
world of advocacy groups, and look around in the larger, real-life world
of the computing industry, people exit Microsoft all the time, to pursue
pretty much the same things as people leaving other companies leave for.
And people leave other companies from all over the industry to take jobs
at Microsoft, too.
So, someone leaving Microsoft to work with open source is no more odd or
unlikely as someone leaving IBM or Sun to do the same thing.
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--Tim Smith
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