[CS-FSLUG] MICROSOFT RESEARCHER, WIKI CREATOR JOINS ECLIPSE

[David Aikema]

On 10/19/05, dmc <edoc7 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Microsoft researcher Ward Cunningham is joining the Eclipse Foundation
> > ...
> > Cunningham's role at the nonprofit foundation
> > will be to help improve collaborative and cooperative efforts between
> > members of the Eclipse open-source community.
>
> "Hi, I'm here from Micro$oft and I'm here to help
> out with an open-source project ..."
>
> Uh huh.  That's like Hilary Clinton offering to
> improve free market healthcare, Bill Clinton offering
> to help improve the moral environment of youth, or
> Michaela Moore offering to make a fact-based documentary.
>
> If someone is being paid by Micro$oft to participate
> in anything it is to figure out how M$ can appropriate
> it and lock it into a proprietary profit-making product
> or kill it before it is born.

Hold on a bit there...

(a) Apparently he'll no longer be under the pay of Microsoft so it's
hard to argue that it's Microsoft trying to pull strings behind the
scenes
(b) He's apparently the guy who came up with the whole Wiki idea -
sounds like he has a reasonable track record behind him in the area of
open source

- More info on this at
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1872348,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

David