Microsoft Tries to Recruit ESR

According to Eric Raymond himself, Microsoft tried to recruit him to the company recently.

You know, I have a lot of respect for Mr Raymond, but I used to have more, and I definitely had more respect for him seeing the 'Thanks but no thanks' message he sent to the recruiter at MS. That's to say that I think ESR's response to MS is entirely unprofessional and inappropriate.

Sure, okay, ESR hates MS for things MS has done to the rest of us, and sure, ESR heads up the OSS movement. Yeah, ESR's broken the news on the Hallowe'en Documents whenever they've come out. Okay. We get that, not that we voted him in as Judge. But what kind of an arrogance provokes someone to write such an sneering and mocking response as the one ESR wrote to MS? Calling the entire offer a 'joke', for instance, is just too far.

I'm really, really disappointed that ESR thought the entire thing was funny, and that he can't be professional and businesslike for 2 fucking minutes. This is juvenile.