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nocturn
June 14th, 2005, 12:06 PM
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23923

It seems Danniel Robbins is taking a job at Microsoft. I had to read it twice... and I'm still not sure if I believe it.

az
June 14th, 2005, 12:56 PM
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23923

It seems Danniel Robbins is taking a job at Microsoft. I had to read it twice... and I'm still not sure if I believe it.

What is wrong with that?


The Microsoft Company will face the open source software challenge. They will have to do something to show their followers that they have it beat.

Either by interfacing with open source software (imaging being able to compile linux apps and run them natively on Windows, using a Microsoft toolkit, or a portion of Windows code released on an (not quite open and not quite) free licence.

nocturn
June 14th, 2005, 12:58 PM
What is wrong with that?

The Microsoft Company will face the open source software challenge. They will have to do something to show their followers that they have it beat.

Either by interfacing with open source software (imaging being able to compile linux apps and run them natively on Windows, using a Microsoft toolkit, or a portion of Windows code released on an (not quite open and not quite) free licence.

Nothing wrong with it, I'm just very surprised (both by Robbins accepting the job as MS hiring him).

WildTangent
June 14th, 2005, 01:21 PM
well, he will be making good money ;) i think even the janitors make a decent living working at the redmond campus :P lol

-Wild

SparkyDawg
June 14th, 2005, 01:57 PM
"Amongst his jobs at the Vole hill will be trying to help Microsoft try to understand how Open Sauce works, which will be a fairly major task." The author of this article isn't the most intelligent person.

skoal
June 14th, 2005, 02:11 PM
[...]will be trying to help Microsoft try to understand how Open Sauce works, which will be a fairly major task."
You ain't kidding! It took Burger King over 10 years to steal that closed sauce secret from McDonalds.

\\//_

Gtaylor
June 14th, 2005, 04:10 PM
A very interesting/amusing move. I'll have to torment one of the Gentoo heads that is very anti-MS at work :)

sonny
June 14th, 2005, 05:12 PM
I can't see how this could be good for the Linux community, but I also can't see how this can affect us, that's why I don't like this, I see there's something else going on here, is not that I'm a paranoid person (wich I am sometimes), but what if he hire all the head projects and brainwash them :grin: .... Well serously, I don't like this cuz I can't understand it; that's the way my brain works.

By the way; just an idea, has anyone wonder if the Windows code have some open-source code?, They'll be charging for something their not supose to charge, just an other paranoid idea :???:

He is stealing our greatest minds so there will be no progress in Linux ;-)

Quest-Master
June 14th, 2005, 09:25 PM
He lost a lot of money while creating Gentoo, and even though the Foundation allowed him to take the money given as donatations to make a living, he was still not exactly living well.

Oh well. Just shows you can't solely make a living off of open source.

-Rick-
June 14th, 2005, 09:59 PM
By the way; just an idea, has anyone wonder if the Windows code have some open-source code?, They'll be charging for something their not supose to charge, just an other paranoid idea ??
Well MS has an Open Source project....http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix
Also see their 'Shared Source' page: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx

kvidell
June 14th, 2005, 10:03 PM
I've been in Redmond's MSN/MSDN R&D building before... it's nice o.O
MSFT spent a lot of time on their campus... the staff that keeps it pretty ~is~ well paid.
They even have a billiards room and a waterfall and stream seperating some of the buildings with a big walking path >.>

Too bad there's like.. NO morale :-P My friend who worked there recently quit and got a programming spot at the Google campus up there (his project: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html )

Silly msft having money and not knowing where to allocate it...

I hape the Gentoo guy does them some good.. in... whatever sense that can be held to :-P
- Kev

poofyhairguy
June 14th, 2005, 11:32 PM
Just shows you can't solely make a living off of open source.

hmm...Depends how you look at it. The way I see it, he did make money off of open source. His experiance with open source projects is what got him a big job. I can tell you as a soon to be graduate that anything that gets the foot in a door in some elite place (if you did not go to an elite school) is worth some dinero.

Your resume sometimes is your most valuable asset.

In fact, many open source people have been getting hired recentl.