Thanks to all those who picked up on the Microsoft Linux and Open Office Compete Lead job advert and blogged about it. Not surprisingly, the ad has now disappeared.

• maybe all that blogging helped Microsoft find their perfect candidate overnight? or
• maybe they decided that the plan of “engaging with Open Source communities and organizations” to “CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE think about Microsoft, specifically those with a ‘hostile’ or negative perception of the Microsoft platform” was now fatally flawed as it had been so widely exposed?

Open source thrives on doing things in the open; secret source would prefer people didn’t know what was going on.
p.s. the advert is of course still visible in Google cache

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