An Object Lesson for Recruiters

Phil Gomes points to an exchange between Eric S. Raymond–probably the world’s most famous open source advocate–and a recruiter at Microsoft:

What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict XVI into presiding at a Satanist orgy?

I take it Raymond’s a bit of a hothead, but recruiters ought to know better. If you’re in software and haven’t read The Cathedral and the Bazaar, drop whatever you’re doing and do so.