Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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As much as the next nice-guy, I would like to read an interview with Microsoft engineers, developers, etc and be able to see them as normal people like anyone else. However, that PR junk (salesmanship, questions ignored and evaded like politicians are well known to do) just makes the interviewee seem like a mindless slave (which I know he is not). It is a shame that MS would take advantage of an honest interview in that way and make the guy look so bad. I have no hard feelings towards him at all; only disappointment in the interview overall (not Eugenia's fault).
I also have this feeling that people who work for MS are 100% convinced by what the company claims. They honestly believe they are doing the right things. However, it is clear that the main motivation is to make money and they admit to it. The amount of focus that MS employees put on business being about making money is frightening. If you have the goal of making money as your primary, then all else takes a back seat. This includes customer service, product quality and consumer choice. It shows.
It isn't the post-DOJ-trial public view of MS or the OSS community that changed my opinion of MS from "so they're successful, big deal" to "I hope the company is disassembled by the DOJ;" it was Microsoft's products and behaviors that convinced me that they are an "evil" running rampent in the computer industry. I do not mean "evil" in the biblical sense, either.
Microsoft has abused me personally as a consumer and a customer and as a professional on so many levels that I chose to take sides against them. They have themselves to blame, not mindless OSS zealots.
Money is not what life is about and will not work towards the positive evolution of the human species. You are mistaken and misguided to say that and to believe it. I wonder what it takes for each person to see beyond the inherent abusive and anti-humanitarian greed that Microsoft claims is our salvation; some people are open to the truth of the situation and others are not. This isn't religion; it is reality and does not need the grey area arguments that religion hides behind. So, what are you missing? Perhaps it is the money that blinds. As long as people see a steady stream of money coming from their use of the MS dominance, they will be content and accept.
There's more to life than money.