On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 15:58 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Robert Collins"> > > > I can think of few things in the IT sector less interesting to me than a > > visit from a MS marketroid. Get a MS leader in the door, and thats a > > different thing. > > The original person visiting was not a marketroid. It'll be interesting to > see who they propose instead. Perhaps it would be useful to say, "we're only > really interested in talking to your Open Source Office people". :-)
I don't think that that is useful, particularly as its not true. The open source office is not the place that company wide direction is set. Microsoft is thousands of times larger than a company needs to be for left-hand and right-hand doing different things to occur in the absence of clear leadership on specific issues. The folk that need to engage *us* about open source and open standards etc etc are not the folk on the left hand, or the right hand, but the head, the (as much as a company can have) global direction setters. Until *they* are walking the walk and talking the talk, you can almost guarantee that Microsoft will continue to work sporadically *at best* at being a participant in the open source community. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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