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Microsoft tries to recruit Eric Raymond

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piratePenguin:
It's a step up from hiring 11 year olds.

muzzy:
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. :)

Jenda:
:D hilarious

piratePenguin:
This was brought up on a list I'm subscribed to. One person had a fairley interesting response:

--- Quote ---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.
--- End quote ---
The link is hilarious!

Disclaimer: I don't dislike ESR.

worker201:
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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