Eric S. Raymond (ESR) az ismert open source "evangelista" állásajánlatot kapott a Microsofttól, amit meglehetősen durván visszautasított. A e-mail váltás itt, a Slashdot cikk itt.
A Slashdot-on poénkodásba fulladt a hír kibeszélése, íme néhány gyöngyszem: MS: Sit in this office. Call no one. Write nothing. Issue no memos. Reply to no email.
ESR: I can't do that?
MS: Can't handle the isolation?
ESR: No, I have to sound off every now and then or people will forget about me!
MS: Well... that's what were actually shooting for.
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ACCEPT:
Under the following conditions:
1) Your office filetypes are made public
2) Your publicises the OS system server calls.
3) Stop funding biased reports.
4) Hey, while your at it: open-source Windows OS (all of them)...
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how about asking bill to join the openoffice team?
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"I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates that either you or your research team (or both) couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds?"
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
Obligatory "Everboby loves Eric Raymond": http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code