Sam Ramji leaving Microsoft
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| Then there is the whole issue of patents and the old school anti-Linux FUD
| (like the recent BestBuy case). I've seen Ramji stand at the front of a
| seemingly hostile open source crowd defending Microsoft. It didn't look
| like much fun to me, but he did it.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/sam-ramji-leaving-microsoft.html
Microsoft Starts Open Source Foundation--Ramji Said to Be Leaving
http://ostatic.com/blog/microsoft-starts-open-source-foundation-ramji-said-to-be-leaving
Related:
How To Take (Yet Another) Beating
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| Most of the pummeling sent Microsoft's way amounts to two complaints levied
| against them constantly in the past: 1) you can't talk out of both sides of
| your mouth about open source and open standards, and 2) stop using patents as
| a cudgel to keep other people in line.
|
| [...]
|
| Complaint #2 keeps coming back into the limelight, pretty much whenever the
| words "Microsoft", "patent" or "intellectual property" (pick any two) are
| breathed in the same sentence. My feelings about software patents have been
| deeply mixed for a long time, trending towards negative. The more I see of
| how little protection they actually afford, and how much of a hassle they end
| up being for everyone involved -- including the very people who are supposed
| to benefit from them -- the less I'm convinced they need to be defended so
| aggressively. They create more problems than they solve, even though in the
| short run it looks like you're winning.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/how_to_take_yet.html
Microsoft: Not worried about open source patents
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| One of the funniest exchanges between Ramji and the OSCON audience was the
| following:
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| "Do you feel like you're screwing a porcupine and you're one prick
| against thousands?" the OSCON audience member asked Ramji.
|
| Ramji politely replied:
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| "It takes time to change and I knew that I'd be unpopular when I took
| this job...
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/microsoft-not-worried-about-op.html
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