Dan Gillmor Talks ... at Microsoft?

As much as I criticize Microsoft, I have a lot of respect for them. How can you not? How can you not recognize their success, right? But I also admit that I just don't understand the company. So closed in so many ways, yet leaders in so many other ways -- such as blogging.

You have to give them credit for this, too, that's for sure: Heather talks about how she attended a Dan Gillmor talk recently on campus. Dan Gillmor? The reporter? He's not exactly known to be the most supportive guy out there regarding Microsoft. I never really followed Gillmor's stuff that closely, but I do remember some pretty tough articles on Microsoft.

Anyway, this got me thinking ... who could we invite to the Sun campus to help stretch our thinking on some issues? We did have Richard Stallman a few years ago come and chat about free software. Which was absolutely fascinating, by the way. But who else? Who do we need to listen to but who is also critical of us? What perspective are we missing?

Dec 22, 2004

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I want to assume that people from Gartner (and others like them) are fundamentally honest, they are just misinformed so, why not start with Gartner and other auditors?
PS. If you want I volunteer to be a Beta tester of the program "getting to know Sun campus" :)

Posted by Jaime Cardoso on December 22, 2004 at 07:41 PM JST #

If you want someone that is critical of Sun, why not get Linus Torvalds?

Posted by Don Messerli on December 23, 2004 at 01:25 AM JST #

I'd love to have Linus come and talk to us. I but we'd fill the place for him. :)

Posted by Jim Grisanzio on December 23, 2004 at 04:00 AM JST #