__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 30 April 2007 13:28 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft's Revolving Internet Door: The Talent Brain Drain Continues
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>> | Robert Scoble, a very high profile blogger for Microsoft who left the
>> | firm a few months ago, reports that Microsoft's talent drain is
>> | continuing.
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>> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070430/33939_id.html?.v=1
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>
> I can't say I'd ever miss a blogger. The world isn't going to miss yet
> another writer of mindless self opinionated junk.
>
> Sorry, but having a blog does not make one a writer or a jerno. One of
> which I would like the other I wouldn't, but at least they both know how to
> write readable texts, even if one of them would just make it up as he went
> along.
Exactly my point. http://scobleizer.com/2006/03/04/better-mail-than-jail/
Your argument was also made when the editor at OSNews decided to attack GNOME
and KDE. Having a Web site does not make a person more knowledgable.
>> Related:
>>
>> Former Project Manager of Excel:
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>> | The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people
>> | has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly...
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>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html
>>
>
> Yes we know about this. The standard of MS OS software is well below crap
> and heading downwards. True programmers would never have wanted to be
> involved in this. Unless the pay was really good, obviously.
>
>>
>> MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
>> Developers
>>
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>> | "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
>> | architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
>> | ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
>> | core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
>> | Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
>> |
>
> Call me childish if you like, but I did have a giggle at the obvious in
> that list of names, he is probably a tough bloke, a name like that he must
> have learnt to fight at a very early age in school. I tell you, if my
> surname was Mayo I'd have it changed. Maybe change it to Wanke or something
> else that kids can't make fun of.
Well, Wanke could always move to the States where words are used differently.
Mayo could marry McDonald and live happily with lettuce.
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
>> | Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
>> | awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
>> | come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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>
http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
>> http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
>
> Good for him, it's about time the developers stood up thumped the table and
> demanded that the Chief exec listens. Of cause, being a developer no doubt
> all of the wine in the surrounding glasses will jump out when he does that.
> Developers do that sort of thing, I know I saw it happen at a conference
> once. But he got a jolly good laugh out of it.
>
> If Vista is going to survive it needs to be in the hands of developers, not
> the Chief exec.
That's where Debian is a sharp contrast. But they said Devs are immature,
whether it's a good or a bad thing... Google comes to mind...
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