On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:49AM +0100, Tim Duckett wrote: > But hold on - you're confusing two issues here. Erik Huggers no longer > work for Microsoft - he works for the BBC. > > So either we say that working for Microsoft at some point in his past > has made him fundamentally untrustworthy for all time, and therefore > unqualified to make these kind of decisions for another organisation in > the future; OR we take the view that he will work on behalf of the > organisation that he's being paid by, in the absence of evidence to the > contrary. > > Promoting closed formats in the face of all the arguments was > doing the "right thing" as far as Microsoft was concerned - so if he's > got a track record of doing the right thing by his employer, it's > reasonable to assume that he's going to try to do the right thing for the > BBC - whatever that happens to be.
I have noticed that a number of people (and not just people associated with Microsoft) do sometimes tend to pick solutions with which they are somewhat familiar. I have coped with projects where that has happened on more than one occasion. Nothing sinister, just that they think they are doing the right thing due to a disparity in their level of knowledge between competing solutions. That isn't to say that Huggers (or anyone else) will do that but it does require careful thought when bringing in someone who might have such an inbuilt preference. -- Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
