[Ipg-smz] Microsoft and Novartis team up to create new drugs

[Esther Shein]

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https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bill-gates-mellows-a-bit-at-microsoft?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio



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From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 1:57 PM
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Cc: Stephen Satchell <ipg at satchell.net>; lynn at itwriter.com
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Microsoft and Novartis team up to create new drugs

On 10/14/19 10:48 AM, Lynn Greiner via Ipg-smz wrote:
> Which is rather funny, given how active Microsoft is in the open 
> source community now. But I guess there always has to be a Big Bad.

Funny you should use a comic book, er, "graphic novel" reference.
Consider the number of books, comics, television series, and movies that use the plot that someone who is initially presented as a hero is exposed in Act III as the villain of the piece.

I suggest that many people, once burned by the Steve Ballmer viewpoint, are afraid that the "new" Microsoft will turn out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing.  That 'embrace' will be followed by "extend", then "extinguish".  "But, honey, just give me one more chance" rarely ends up well in life.

Has the Microsoft culture changed that much?  The optimists wil say "yes", but those who have been hurt badly before will be more wary.

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