Microsoft tries to recruit me. The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes agofrom a Microsoft recruiter. From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" < v- mikewa@microsoft. To: < esr@thyrsus. Eric,I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft isseeking world class engineers to help create products that help peopleand businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
Your name and contact info was brought to my attention as someone whocould potentially be a contributor at Microsoft. I would love anopportunity to speak with you in detail about your interest in a careerat Microsoft, along with your experience, background and qualifications. I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have and canalso provide you with any information I have available in regard to theposition s and work life at Microsoft.
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- My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something like this could happen maybe I haven’t made enough trouble for Microsoft lately, and I’m slipping off.
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Please take a moment to visit My Calendar< http: //www. You can learn moreabout our vision for the New World of Work at< http: //www. Additionally, if you are aware of any current or previous colleagueswho might also be interested in opportunities at Microsoft, I would behappy to speak with them as well. Referrals are always welcome, andare greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance and I look forward to an opportunity to speak toyou in the near future. Best regards,Mike < http: //members. How far will you go? Mike Walters. CST Senior Recruiter. Microsoft. One Microsoft Way.
Redmond, WA 9. 80. Pyt=Tmap& addr=One+Microsoft+Way& csz=Redmond%2. C+WA+9. 80. 52& country=us>. I called Mike Walters, who told me my name had been passed to himby his research team. I indicated to him that I thought somebodywas probably having a little joke at his expense, and promised him anemail reply. Here is my reply in its entirety. To: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" < v- mikewa@microsoft.
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From: < esr@thyrsus. I'd thank you for your offer of employment at Microsoft, exceptthat it indicates that either you or your research team (or both)couldn't get a clue if it were pounded into you with baseball bats. What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobsto Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick tosomething easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a. Satanist orgy? If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, youmight have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig. Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I'vein fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmaresince about 1.
You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for itand talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 5. But don't think I'm trying to destroy your company.
Oh, no; I'd bejust as determined to do in any other proprietary- software monopoly,and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishingthat goal. On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will beheard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue butdevelop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstonewill go superconductive.
But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon. Onthat hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft'sgrave, I sincerely hope none of it will splash on you. Cordially yours,Eric S. Raymond. My wife, upon hearing of this, suggested that if something likethis could happen maybe I haven’t made enough trouble for. Microsoft lately, and I’m slipping off their radar. She might have apoint…UPDATE: For those of you who missed the subtlety (which was a surprising lot of you) I was quite polite to this guy on the phone. FURTHER UPDATE: I had my serious, constructive converstation with Microsoft last year, when a midlevel exec named Steven Walli took me out to dinner at OSCON 2.
How can we not be evil?” And I told him — open up your file formats (including Word and multimedia), support open technical standards instead of sabotaging them, license your patents under royalty- free, paperwork- free terms. I believe Steve Walli went back to his bosses and told them that truth. He is no longer with Microsoft, and what little he’ll say about it hints that they canned him for trying to change their culture. This didn’t surprise me. Microsoft’s profit margins require a monopoly lock on the market; thus, they’re stuck with being predatory evil bastards. The moment they stop being predatory evil bastards, their stock price will tank and their options pyramid will crash and it will be all over. That being the case, negotiation is pointless.
Microsoft is not reformable. Jeering at offers like this is actually the most constructive thing we can do.