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Microsoft is trying to hire away Open Source "contributors"... Eric S. Raymond responds to an unsolicited job offer by Micrsoft: "To: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" From: I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, except that it indicates... more

Reviewed by emfb Sep 09 2005, 12:14pm ( 57 reviews ) • ibiblio.org

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Rated by Zorlin on Aug 16, 11:54pm

@thor623: it's not that hard to be Microsoft-free. thumbs'd because I found it mildly amusing. Microsoft tries to hire out open-source developers to take them out of the ecosystem quite a lot.
Reviewed by PurposefulStride on Aug 16, 5:50pm

I love that an executive at Microsoft took him out to dinner to sit down and really understand his argument; it makes Eric Raymond seem even more immature to throw such a fit over the original email (and he shouldn't think he's so important to believe that the exec got fired for reporting what they talked about).
Rated by Runelord on May 22, 6:23pm

Open source nazi ftw. Sounds positively genocidal.
Rated by spong on May 11 2009, 3:45am

what a rude, arrogant wanker. mind you, it's probably a fake letter anyway and he concocted the entire thing up himself for linkbait. If I could give this two thumbs down, I gladly would. @cholling "pope of open source" -- lol!
Rated by mehdi on Mar 14 2009, 6:51am

this guy is silly ... you work for open source ? great. Doesn't mean you can't be hired by Microsoft.
Reviewed by thor623 on Mar 13 2009, 3:52pm

um, ok.... and "-microsoft free since 2003" only sounds cool cuz it rhymes. you havent really been. nice try tho

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