Microsoft is Watching
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-27 09:05:02 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-27 09:05:02 UTC
"Gathering intelligence on enemy activities is critical to the success of the Slog."
--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
A good place to start this would be
one news item from the Indian press. It shows how aggressively Microsoft is trying to steal employees from Adobe. It's espionage.
Head hunters may like to call this intelligence gathering. Microsoft is in the process of engaging several executive search firms to conduct extensive talent mapping exercises focused on Adobe's development centers in Bangalore and Noida. These two centers collectively employ close to 700 people primarily constituting product development specialists at various levels of seniority.
They tried this against Yahoo and perhaps Borland too. Inside interventions were
explained here very recently. It's vicious and brutal. We will probably come back to this in the near future. Until then, consider this
older post about Microsoft's dossiers on reporters.
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Comments
Lol
2008-07-27 09:15:27
http://darksidefoss.blogspot.com/
Lol
2008-07-27 09:44:42
it was updated ages ago or may even have been that way from the start. Certainly as of 27/02/08 09:38. I had a discussion with one of Microsoft's lawyers who had been sent to monitor proceedings at the Open Forum Europe conference in Geneva in February. I asked why the language of the OSP was so woolly and didn't mention the GPL by name. He pointed out to me the paragraph above (which isn't actually in the OSP, but in the FAQ) and he sent me an email with the text of that paragraph. I still wouldn't touch it myself.
Lol
2008-07-27 09:46:19
http://darksidefoss.blogspot.com/
Roy Schestowitz
2008-07-27 10:13:19