Wanted: Community Manager

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one of the most important responsibilities any employee has -- especially a community manager--is to know when to move on, and not remain in a role just for the sake of having a job."What a jackass!!Millions of people without jobs, hundreds of thousands are losing homes and business, millions cant afford insurance and this moron treats a job like its a choice between croquet or lawn bowling.You remain in a job when you have kids, a house, cars and all kinds of payments. Yep, if you can find your dream job, go for it.You have a responsability to do you job well. Period.I thought he was a douche for going to Novell when guys like Allison were going the other way.But this quote confirms he's a douche with a high opinion of himself.As for Redmond, show me ONE person in charge from Steverino, Hector, Brad and such who have changed their tunes. You wont.You can trot out the low level managers they bring out to charm the bloggers, the Bill Milfs of the world so you can say, "See, theyre not that bad". Meanwhile, the ones at top have not said one thing.Answer me a question: when you want to know the direction a company is going in (take Apple or any Fortune 500), do you take your cue from a Steve Jobs or do you say "No. Bob the West Coast assistant manager in charge of networking and paper clips say the company is going in this direction."But that's whats happening here. No one at the top of MS has even hinted that things are different than 18-24months ago when Steve claimed that I and other users have to pay MS for using Red Hat because it steals from them (and reminding us that Novell has paid up the extortion) but since they sent a few stooges to some conventions, things are supposed to be different.I was already skeptical a few years ago but after reading many of the documents Groklaw has linked to in the Comes vs Microsoft case and read how Microsoft does business (I always thought the case against them was a bit on the heavy handed side but after reading those documents and emails, its seems they were just as bad as we thought if not much worse).'Show me' is popular in my state and not because of spring break.So until I hear/read any repudiation of the past 2-3 years of attacks on Linux from THE HEADS at Microsoft, I have absolutely nothing to base this 'things are different' vibe you are peddling.And considering that the whole TomTom lawsuit by MS over three patents that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel wasnt even one year ago, it seems your idea of thaw is pretty strange.As a “Non-Compensated Individual Hobbyist Developer”, Novell and their apologist Zonker were defending threats to my livelyhood.For that they can both go to hell.