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Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« on: 9 September 2005, 20:39 »
OK, this is freak'n hilarious. MS just got kicked in the head by an open source evangelist. This is great. Take a look at the original e-mail and then Eric's reply...

MS is really a bunch of idiots!!!

http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.php?p=208
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #1 on: 9 September 2005, 20:43 »
lol
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #2 on: 9 September 2005, 21:22 »
ESR for president.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #3 on: 9 September 2005, 21:28 »
Quote from: worker201
ESR for president.

Quoted for emphasis.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #4 on: 9 September 2005, 22:08 »
Hahaha, that's brilliant! :)
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #5 on: 9 September 2005, 23:09 »
It's a step up from hiring 11 year olds.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #6 on: 10 September 2005, 07:11 »
If you read the replies to his post about it, people are noticing that the email address begins with v- which means it's a vendor address, not anyone in microsoft themselves. Also, it's a generic template which other people have gotten as well.

Eric's response is still funny. I love the brimstone bit. :)
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #7 on: 12 September 2005, 22:02 »
:D hilarious
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #8 on: 13 September 2005, 22:21 »
This was brought up on a list I'm subscribed to. One person had a fairley interesting response:
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This doesn't say much to me except reconfirming my opinion that
Eric's ego is totally out of control.  "Microsoft's worst
nightmare"?  Taking *personal* credit for getting "the Fortune 500"
to buy in to Linux?  All this on foot of a series of immensely
tedious books which each strain their chosen metaphor well past its
limit and a bunch of theories which are Just Plain Wrong in my
opinion.  The arrogance and Plain Rudeness of his reply to the
recruiter (who, as has been hashed out on slashdot and elsewhere,
isn't even a MS employee) is breathtaking.

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code says it
all, IMO.
The link is hilarious!

Disclaimer: I don't dislike ESR.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #9 on: 13 September 2005, 23:04 »
Funny link, but not quite accurate.  ESR has plenty of street cred.  He has been active in the hacker community for over 30 years, and his work on LISP and Emacs is more than enough to place him in the annals of computer history.  Additionally, I think that his  essay "The Cathedral & the Bazaar" is the basis for how Linux and most other open source projects are run today, and his exposure of the potential flaws of Brooks' Law is probably exactly what got many companies, small and F500 large, to use Linux.

For more info, read Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month" - clearly, your buddy has not done so, and therefore is unable to understand "The Cathedral & the Bazaar", which is probably why he doesn't like it.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #10 on: 14 September 2005, 02:34 »
"On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.":D

and Windows will be bug free!
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #11 on: 14 September 2005, 02:55 »
YOu are not right man
i am going to work for M$ only to sabotage them and give out secret code thru
bbses :))
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #12 on: 21 September 2005, 06:55 »
I thought this was interesting:
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#  David Keegel Says:
September 9th, 2005 at 1:08 am

Perhaps there was an opportunity missed here.
The email from Microsoft said:
\u201cI would be happy to answer any questions that you may have\u201d
Perhaps some questions like
When will Microsoft Office .DOC file format be published?
When will Internet Explorer be available to run on Linux?


The only point to making Internet Exlorer available to Linux would be so that it could suck on two platforms.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #13 on: 21 September 2005, 12:51 »
You mean three platforms, IE aready sucks on Windows and Mac but I see your point I don't think we want to see it giving head to Linux as well.
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Re: Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond
« Reply #14 on: 21 September 2005, 19:19 »
I would love to see IE on Linux, just so I could take it apart, insert some really nasty code, and then give it to all my friends and family and university computers that still use IE.  That'll fucking teach them!
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