MS continued attack on OSD #6

[Jamie Cannon]

BGalliart: I committed to looking at this issue and it's on our radar. I'm going to send you my contact information & let's try to get some time together so I can understand your immediate concerns in more detail and likewise, give you an update from our end.



Thanks, Jamie



-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Moen [mailto:rick at linuxmafia.com]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 8:29 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: Re: MS continued attack on OSD #6



Quoting B Galliart (bgallia at gmail.com):



> In my case, Microsoft Port 25 blog pointed me to it.  It also appears

> at http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/learning.mspx and

> http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/downloads.mspx



You could and should have mentioned that _earlier_, rather than just

sending us the URL of some odd little PDF and leaving it up to the

entire readership of this mailing list to determine why this is

particularly of significance.  (If you expect people to search the

archives for prior occasions when you might or might not have mentioned

that PDF, you're likely to be disappointed.)



People on this mailing list tend to have limited amounts of time and

effort to devote to it.  Accordingly, your best chance at being taken

seriously is to avoid exaggeration -- e.g., don't pretend that some

college intern's screwup is anything like corporate policy -- and, avoid

time-wasting rhetorical excess, and make very sure you include vital

details like _why_ you consider otherwise apparently motley marketing

fluff on the Internet to merit OSI's time and trouble.



On that particular point:  Yes, the PDF's at least findable, and they

should fix or remove it.  However, in proper perspective, it's not even

particularly prominent.  You seem to have made very much out of rather

little -- assuming you haven't failed to mention something a lot more

substantial.





> So how many months should be allowed to pass since Jamie Cannon

> claimed it would be addressed until it becomes something that goes

> beyond just some uncredited marketing guy?



Personally, *I* really don't care very much.  It looks trivial

after I removed the dressing in which you recently presented the issue.

However, if you want to help instead of just lobbing polemically

exaggerated "Let's you and him fight" mailing list postings at OSI, you

could try writing to Jamie Cannon.  Suggestion:  Stick to facts, refresh

memories, politely ask for status, omit the accusatory tone, and in

general act like you've dealt with businesses before.


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