On Jan 31, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Abbott <brian (AT) abbott DO.T plus.com> wrote:
> Rick
>
> Rick Schummer wrote:
> >
> > No, this would be presenting Microsoft with a threat model.
>
>
> Que?
>
> YAG (hitherto a guy who has in the past kept reasonably in touch with
> the community) isn't talking to us any more. Assuming he isn't a total
> **** who has been b*******ting lots of us over the years, it probably
> means he has pressure from above. He's at (I am lead to believe) middle
> management level. So, it's a reasonable bet that the pressure on him is
> from a beancounter or marketing droid. Do they, (all but the best,
> anyways) grok concepts such as 'long term' and 'goodwill' ? I doubt it.
> What they understand - viscerally - is 'fear and greed'. The only way
> to put pressure on them is to appeal to that.
>
> Why do you think MS is getting more open to Open Source these days? Fear.
>
> I don't disagree at all with your tactics (show the limited list of
> bugs, the reasons why VFP developers can't use the product ... etc) I
> just think they'll not be enough on their own.
>
>
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If you say so.
I think that YAG has been very committed to the other portions of his M$
life. The foxheads are what 1% maybe 5% of his client base? Does he have
to really give a lot of time? Do you remember that his former company
before leaving was pro VB as well as sure we can still do VFP? I got that
from sessions he did in NOLA.
Open Source and M$ ?
What are you talking about anyway? MicroSquish is not putting any of their
code up for your mods, only for debugging. To me that is not Open Source.
CodePlex is a place for you to shove your stuff for others much like *
sourceforge*.net.
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