Leaving the Church of Bill

[mdlbear]

From varlinux.org, an interesting blog entry about why the Fellowship Church is moving its website off of Microsoft products and onto open source: Linux, PHP, PostgreSQL and Apache.

Brian Baily posted ten reasons (theses?) why the FC is leaving the Church of Bill -- pretty much the obvious ones: cost, lack of .net developers, security, uptime... Probably the most interesting item was a comment from Robert Scoble, a Microsoft employee, saying:

Thanks for writing this up. It's a very clear explanation of what we at Microsoft need to do to win back developers.

Right. His own blog entry attracted quite a few comments, most of them predictably skeptical.

I'd be skeptical, too, if I'd bothered to comment. I am skeptical: once you lose -- or more accurately, driven away -- a customer who's made a difficult, well-considered choice to switch, it takes more than mere improvement to "win them back". Not likely to happen, in this case.