Senior Microsoft developer dumps Redmond to embrace open source
Posted by: admin in Business and PoliticsMike Gunderloy spent over a decade consulting for Microsoft, helping to build the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, as well as SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net. A series of Microsoft moves, most particularly its “patent land-grab,” has pushed Gunderloy away from Microsoft to the point that he’s now “100 percent Microsoft-free” and has embraced a variety of open-source projects and programming languages.
It started with a feeling that his recommendations for Office 2007 were “pretty much ignored,” which differed from his earlier experience with input give on Office 97, 2000, and 2003. But the patents - ah, the patents - broke the proverbial camel’s back:
The beginning of the end for the developer was when Microsoft went patent berserk. “What finally pushed me over the edge to ‘I’m getting out’ was when Microsoft started to assert non-intellectual property rights over the its Ribbon interface, making that level of sweeping intellectual property claims. Microsoft went from not patenting much to patenting everything,” Gunderloy says….
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