Yeah I agree,
This puts me in mind of when Jerry Jones Fired Tom Landry. Now I never was a cowboy fan, but I thought he was a great coach and man. Jerry Jones bought the team and had every right to hire and fire whom ever he wanted. But after all the contributions Mr. Landry had made to the sport, Dallas, and the boys, he found out he had been fired by hearing it on the radio. Jerry Jones has since gone on to show how much class he has by allowing all that crap to go on with the team. I think MS has just done the same thing. Stabbed these people in the back. MS should have and with very little effort made this whole situation much more pleasent for everyone. Instead they have created even more ill feeling toward them. Of course they are so loved currently....

Jeff
>>Hi Doug.
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>>>>Absolutely! I'm just not convinced that Microsoft has done their homework here, or perhaps they have actually done it and are making decisions that benefit only themselves. <<
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>>I think that this decision be the result of the AOL bru-ha-ha with volunteers claiming employee status. I am under the impression (although I could be wrong) that the US government is thinking about legislating something regarding this. M$ may be trying to avoid another major problem with the justice department < g >.
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>Perhaps. I guess I wasn't aware that this had happened.
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>>>> Do YOU like being used? I sure don't. <<
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>>No. But I don't think about it in those terms. I think about it as being a part of the developer community.
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>>Marcia
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>Me too. Look, Microsoft IMO has every right to do what they did. After all, it is their party < g > but the way they have done this seems very very clumsy to me.
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>*shrug*
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>Best,