On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:33:50PM +1100, Nathan Bailey wrote: > Microsoft Research do some really interesting, innovative and even > completely open stuff. If we're looking for opportunities to > collaborate (= help Microsoft to engage with, contribute to and build > our community) then I would think it would be good to: > i) Understand what are some key MS research activities of interest to > the SLUG/LUV communities > ii) Understand some key problems in the SLUG/LUV communities that MS > research or MS in general may be able to help solve > iii) Understand what grants, cooperative research and cooperative > development priorities MS may have right now.
perhaps, but this approach to speak to LUGs is unlikely to be coming from Microsoft's 'non-core product' technology teams, which mostly hook themselves into university research groups and subvert what those groups are doing so that they now do it under .NET - much like a (real) virus subverts the operation of a normal cell, turning it into a machine for doing the virus's bidding ;-) > > Microsoft is a huge cash cow (in the OS and Office sections, at > least). We should be actively working with them to help them spend > their money on things that are important to both of us. > > Let's not use this opportunity to dig up all the things MS have done > (or are doing) wrong. Let's use it to find ways to help them do right. > They're not going to change their core values (and neither are we), > but there is still plenty of room for agreement and collaboration. > > re, > N > PS: Some people may be surprised to think that MS would want to work > with, contribute to or build our community. But MS already do a lot of > this for a lot of different communities. Helping communities is good > business. Let's find ways to help Microsoft contribute to our > communities. Sure, this is a great strategy, but it will only work once Microsoft loses the mantle of monopolist kind-pin. Until that happens, until Microsoft becomes "just another powerful ICT player", like IBM, HP, or Intel, then there's little chance of it becoming a reality. -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Con Zymaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/130-132 Stawell St, Richmond, 3121 Cybersource: Australia's Leading Linux and Open Source Solutions Company http://www.cybersource.com.au/ Phone: 03 9428 6922 Fax: 03 9428 6944 -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
