Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, bob wrote:

> This new "hire and silence" strategy on the part of Microsoft actually 
> stands a good chance of slowing the open source movement.  In reality it 

I don't think so.  OSS is developed by tens of thousands of dedicated 
developers and the number is growing rapidly.  MS is only picking up a few 
of the more famous people (and even then only a small minority).  I don't 
see their hiring efforts having any effect on the growth of OSS.

> Microsoft certainly has the $ to "hire and silence" a great deal of the key 
> people in the open source movement if it truely wanted to.      The fact is 
> that they wouldn't have to hire very many to make the strategy effective ... 
> they would just have to poach some key people.

I disagree.  Everytime someone becomes less active in OSS (and it happens) 
they are replaced.  The OSS movement can survive the loss of any of its 
key members, or a many of them.

Cheers,
	Rob

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