Resubscribing to Hugh Macleod

Hugh … I’d miss you too much!

Hugh saw my previous post about unsubscribing … and sent me a most beautiful cartoon … I bow to you, sir …

It is a beautiful cartoon … … Much is forgiven … Hugh, I’d like to say that I understand your point of view, but as a long-term participant in the world of co-operative development (culture, software, etc), I’ve seen too many behaviours pour out of Micro$oft that must be attributed to a rotten corporate culture … I’ll return to enjoying your beautiful art and your intelligent discourse when the Kool-Aid runs out …

(of course, I am tempted by the argument that I should never attribute to malice those behaviours of Micro$oft which can be ascribed to mere incompetence).

I know there are good people inside the organisation. I have worked with some exceptional escapees.

To be honest I think my problems are much deeper than merely Micro$oft … I am troubled by corporations, which are given the legal rights of a person, but whose behaviours are outright criminal, anti-social or anti-community. I hope this stuff is in the past for Micro$oft.

I do genuinely hope that a new Blue Monster emerges from this … but the signs have not been good.