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October 29, 2003
Scared stiff
Reflecting back on the last 2 posts and a theme seems to be common to both of them: FUD. In the case of the weblog-firing, I reckon Microsoft is basically scared about what real "secrets" employees may actually blog about - maybe inadvertently. (Of course firing the guy doesn't solve anything - it's just typical corporate overreaction and not even Microsoft-typical). In the case of Open Source inside corporate networks you have the same problem. Corporate management is scared about what may happen if they "publicly" go the Open Source way.
And I think it is really really important - both for us to understand why they are scared and for them to realize that they are not going to be able to prevent it anyway. In both cases.
Posted by Matthew at October 29, 2003 05:17 PM