[rbanffy]

The problem is not the near-glacial timeframes. It's using you to gather requirements and knowledge and to avoid pitfalls and then, after sucking you dry, building internally.

That's simply not ethical.

(burn, karma, burn)

[ojilles]

Not working for MS, etc. But I wonder if this is intentional. I'm sure this is how it can come across to a startup, but for Big Inc. I doubt they setup these meetings to "outsource" product management work...

[earl]

This is, at least historically, a well known MS tactic, for which they have been sued.