Microsoft making secret power plays?

08 06 2008

Recently I have been hearing a lot of innovators posting to their blogs that they are pursuing new employment with Microsoft, and I wonder if they are making sneaky power plays into the Open Source market. Taking it’s best projects and plucking their leads. For example:

KnoppMyth Creator:
http://mysettopbox.tv/index.html#News

EDIT: The above article seems to be an April Fools joke that I was late to the party on. Thanks to Mark for calling me out.

Castle Cops - Owner/Operator - Paul Laudanski

http://www.castlecops.com/t223152-Must_Read_Important_Announcement.html

Now, don’t get me wrong, everyone needs their family and Open Source is a thankless job sometimes. I am not trying to dog on them for going Microsoft. I am just wondering if they are doing this to give these gents a job and make their product better, or just get rid of supporting competition.

Just my rant on what I am seeing. Sounds a bit like dvorak.org/blog eh?

-- mubix

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08 06 2008
#1 Mark (Reply)

I’m guessing no given the date of the KnoppMyth story. April fools. ;-)
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08 06 2008
#1.1 jd.mubix (Reply)

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll make the edit.
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