[via http://zak.fooassociates.com ] David Stutz, who recently left Microsoft, writes in his retirement letter:
Digging in against open source commoditization won\’t work – it would be like digging in against the Internet, which Microsoft tried for a while before getting wise. Any move towards cutting off alternatives by limiting interoperability or integration options would be fraught with danger, since it would enrage customers, accelerate the divergence of the open source platform, and have other undesirable results. Despite this, Microsoft is at risk of following this path, due to the corporate delusion that goes by many names: \”better together,\” \”unified platform,\” and \”integrated software.\” There is false hope in Redmond that these outmoded approaches to software integration will attract and keep international markets, governments, academics, and most importantly, innovators, safely within the Microsoft sphere of influence. But they won\’t .
He just finished \”Shared Source CLI Essentials\” [2], in his words
\”[..] a book that is sure to become a bestseller [..] and documents my last project at Microsoft before I pulled the ripcord.\”
[1] http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html
[2] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/
