On Jan 31, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
