[Sussex] after much consideration

[Steve Dobson]

Nik

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote:
> Guys as you know I have long been a staunch advocate and evangelist of 
> the open source community however in the last few weeks I have had cause 
> to reconsider the position of this stance.
> 
> In discussions with my colleagues and customers I have now made the 
> descision, with much soul searching, to join the new Microsoft Windows 
> Evangelism team.
> 
> I did not come to the place easily, and yes the rather large salary, car 
> allowance and pension scheme may have contributed towards it. It does 
> help that after speaking to Bill and having him reassure me that many of 
> the considered features of the operating system will be corrected in the 
> longrun, sorry long horn.
> 
> id like to take "this day" and simply say thank you to all for such a 
> wonderful forum for open communication , i wish you all the best for the 
> future.
> 
> my new addresss will be
> 
> nicholas.butler at microsoft.com
> 
> my digital signature is
> 
> 20040401-AP-#r1l#f00-l

Well, Nik, as a support of freedom I fully support you freedom to downgrade
to WinDOZ.  I assume that you'll be using phases like "With all the bugs in
Windows it will keep me in a job for years and years and years and..."

Just out of interest will you also be joining the new ID-ten-T program for
EDS?

Steve D