Dave thinks it's a conspiracy. Michael Tiemann thinks it's evidence that Open Logic and/or Microsoft have no idea what the word "census" means ("the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population").
Me? I think Microsoft just wants to be associated with any good-hearted open-source effort, so that it can appear...good hearted, without actually engaging open source in any deep, meaningful way.
I don't begrudge Microsoft playing at the edges of open source, and think highly of Sam Ramji and others involved. But the way to participate in an open-source community is not to sponsor surveys or shows. It's to write code and contribute it, preferably with and to those that don't work in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft is not a bad company. At least, most of the people comprising the company are not bad. If anything, Microsoft is becoming soft in its old age and lacks fire and ambition (or, at least, the will to achieve its ambition). Efforts like this just underline its decline as it tries to purchase (open-source credibility) what it lacks the stomach to earn through the currency of open source: Code.
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