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Germany attempted once to take over Europe and lots of people died. Totally unforgivable.

Now: people sometimes visit Germany, and they're often just tourists. I will build things for Germans, as that makes me money.

But contributing directly to Germany is too much for me.

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I too enjoy absurd comparisons.

Well, stop judging the Microsoft of today with the one of yesterday. Many of us worker bees never went through that time period, and we really are just trying to build better things.

Comparing "embrace, extend, extinguish" to the Holocaust isn't exactly helping me not judge you.

I was just invoking Goodwin's law earlier rather than later.

Your management hasn't really changed. I grew up with MS in the 80s and 90s -- I'm not quick to forgive a monopoly that set the whole industry back by 10 years.

So what does senior management have to do with this? Just crap on any peon at MS who wants to engage with open source doesn't really hurt them.

The peon actively chose to work there and participate in Microsoft's attempts to dismantle any competition in any field they enter through highly questionable tactics.

So Machiavellian huh?

Such cynicism and paranoia just breeds an equal amount of such on our side. It makes it that much harder for those of us who wish to engage and do good in the OSS community.

I'm not really sure what you could possibly expect after MS spent most of the natural lifetime of this industries senior developers' behaving badly.

Rather weak response. You could also have said why you think Microsoft either hasn't changed, or that regardless of having changed hasn't earned their respect yet.

Now the thread is just worthless.

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