People leave Microsoft all the time, and many of them pass along their departing thoughts in e-mail messages to their colleagues. But the missive sent by Mr David Stutz, a respected technical thinker within the firm for more than a decade, is more intriguing than most. In his last job, Mr Stutz, 46, was a group program manager for Microsoft's 'shared source' initiative - a crucial effort at the company to deal with the threat from the open-source software movement by sharing more Microsoft code with universities and industry partners.
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