Keith Teare received a letter from Microsoft, which he published on his weblog, which among other things, demands that he stop publishing his weblog.  [Scripting News]
My buddy Dan read the entry above and sent me this absolutely hilarious flame. He is obviously passionate about a few things. And he absolutely hits the nail on the head, expressing much more eloquently what I could only blog in written equivalents of short prehistoric grunts. So I'll share his email:
" ... Okay, now I've lost what little sympathy I had for Keith Teare. He starts a company based on a simple brain-dead idea with no barrier to entry, pays himself a ridiculously high salary (he can compare it to billg's salary all he wants, but billg's company isn't a fledgling startup), strikes a deal with the devil to get the company off the ground, then whines endlessly when he realizes he was just another MS flunky.
Based on his writing skills, he doesn't seem to be very bright. His strategic skill as a Chief Executive doesn't say much about his judgement either, i.e. squandering shareholders' money by paying one's self an excessively high salary and essentially gambling the company on a single source of revenue from an untrustworthy partner.
I have a deep and healthy dislike for Microsoft, but I also have no respect for those who allow themselves to get cornered into relying on MS in spite of how many horror stories they hear, and then snivel about it and expect sympathy when they realize they've been screwed.
He'll either learn from this and move on, or keep crying about it and find that he has Peter Principled himself back down to Assistant IT Manager at some government job. ... "
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