[svlug] Microsoft's "open source" guru job posting

[Edward Cherlin]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> begin Edward Cherlin quotation of Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:32:13PM -0800:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=652401&fromSearch=0&sik=1233902901473
>> >
>> > Director, Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft
>>
>> I would love that job, apart from the fact that I might be nearly the
>> last person they would hire for it. I could tell them about
>> themselves. Like how much I am looking forward to trials of WinXP +
>> shovelware against Linux + Sugar on the same hardware by the same
>> people, none of them on the Microsoft payroll. Bwahahahaha!!
>
> This job amounts to putting lipstick on a pig at a
> time when the price of cheaper cuts of pork is falling
> because butchers have found they can catch rats for
> free and budget-minded customers are willing to buy
> rat sausage.

In my case, it's tofu, which is way cheaper because I can make it
fresh from non-GMO soybeans. Then I get to flavor it any way I like.

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