[vox] Microsoft interested in our feelings

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Rod Roark wrote:

> On Friday 19 December 2003 07:32 am, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> ...
> > I'm quite curious as to what they're up to, and how much MS would actually
> > listen to us techie geeks. :^)
> > They should; techie geeks have created their worst enemy.
> 

No they havent.  MS created its own worst enemy. Itself.  


> Perhaps they can start by explaining why we should talk to
> them after they supported SCO's anti-Linux campaign.

1) as if 'not talking to them' is somehow going to prevent them from 
getting the info they want.  This is a direct "feel good;" measure.  MS 
can glean all the damn focus group data they want from open archives 
laying about.  Its not like OSS advocates are particularly quiet about 
what piques them...

2) I am still not sold that MS has a lot of direct (if any) involvement in 
the SCO embrog;lio (at least at the onset).  Consideriing the history of 
McBride and cohorts, it seems like something they seemed to do regularly, 
except this time they ran into a political/PR shitstorm of cosmic 
proportions.

z

> -- Rod
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