Bruce Perens and the OSI board

> Statements like that one above are exactly the point the OSI board is trying to make - it
elects people, not companies, and the people who work at Microsoft happen to be real people
with hobbies, agendas, and merits not dictated by their employer.

I'm sure there are lots of wonderful people working for Microsoft.  I'm also sure, based on
extensive evidence, that there are number of people working at Microsoft whose ethics and
goals are diametrically opposed to my own.  I'm not sure I can tell the two apart, especially
in situations where the latter are motivated to impersonate the former.  (It's not like the MS
salespeople show up to companies, the ISO, etc. and say "hi, we're here to illegally abuse our
monopoly, can you help?")

Besides which, probably most of the people at Microsoft, like most people everywhere, fall
somewhere in between those two extremes: they're more or less reliable on different issues in
different situations.  And it's rather common that someone with the best of intentions finds
themselves in a situation where acting on those intentions ends up playing into some larger,
negative outcome.  Microsoft as a company again has a long history of taking advantage of such
situations.

So it's quite possible to believe that there exist great people working at Microsoft, and
simultaneously be deeply suspicious of the idea of MS employees serving in any kind of F/OSS
leadership position.