While Google gets Cerf, MS tries ESR
Right! Right! By now it’s a household news that Google’s hired 62 year young Vint Cerf. Sidharth has dug up an interesting piece on that.
But lesser known probably is the bit about Microsoft trying to hire one of the 3 most influential people of the Open Source Movement – Eric S Raymond (Along with Richard M Stallman & Linus Torvalds). He obviously turns it down as politely as he could -
“On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.”
posted by Glossy Simulacrum @ 9:26 AM
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