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James Robertson

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Why did Ward leave MS? Posted: Oct 18, 2005 8:14 AM
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Interesting piece of news here - Ward Cunningham (father of the Wiki) has left MS to be an Eclipse evangelist:

Microsoft Corp. has lost one of its high-profile hires to an open-source consortium. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, announced on Monday that Ward Cunningham is leaving Microsoft to join the staff of the open-source tool consortium. Cunningham's new title is Director of Committer Community Development. Cunningham, the father of the Wiki concept, joined Microsoft about two years ago. At Microsoft, he was not involved directly in social-networking-software development.

That last bit is interesting - what did Microsoft want Ward to do, if they weren't going to have him work in the social software world?

Update: Dave Buck noticed this yesterday. Have a look at the quote Dave pulls - that's a pretty low level of excitement for an evangelist, IMHO.

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