December 17, 2003

Common Sense at MSFT

Reading these two postings should give you enough reason to understand why this guy is my favorite Microsoft employee.

I honestly believe that people like Dare do a lot more to make others appreciate Microsoft than those who appear brainwashed.

Stefan Tilkov : "I honestly believe that people like Dare do a lot more to make others appreciate Microsoft than those [link to Scoble] who appear brainwashed."

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You have not justified the label "brainwashed". Can you be more specific?

Sure. First of all, let me point out that I like Scoble a lot (without knowing him personally) - the fact that he even linked to my post says a lot about him.

Still, I have severe trouble understanding how anyone could seriously propose a classical embrace and extend strategy like this

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/12/15.html#a5764

and expect that anyone outside MS would ever agree to something like that.

You'll never see Dare Obasanjo or Doug Purdy propose anything similar.

That post was a mistake. I got reamed for it widely, from both inside and outside the company. I've posted thousands of posts. Sometimes some of them are gonna be rotten. Sorry about that.

Robert, frankly I feel sorry for having picked you of all possible examples. My orginal post's intention was not to insult you, but rather to express how highly I value Dare's credibility.

No problem, it makes for good theater. Ever listen to a radio talk show where everyone agreed with each other? Boring, huh?