Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[E K]

The hiring by M$ can also stimulate OSS development.
Some will still continue doing it for the principle,
some for the love of it, some for the possibility at
the end of the day.

EK
--- Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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