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I apologize for dragging this discussion on any further, but the
following comment was just too much to swallow:
> In this case most are siding with JW and his extensive real life
> exprience in the work place vs. the 28 year old
FWIW, I've been actively programming since 1974. I worked for
Hewlett Packard for almost 20 years. I helped to design and
implement OS's in the 70's and 80's that handled a lot of things a
whole lot better than Windoze STILL manages to. I think that counts
as "extensive real life experience in the workplace."
And I don't agree with JW, at all. I don't know that "most" do
either.
I've also dealt indirectly with MSFT. My wife dealt very directly
with them. (You know the TCP/IP stack in Windoze? MSFT didn't write
it. My wife managed the team at HP that did, and she negotiated the
contract to sell it to MSFT.) And she gets positively venemous when
she describes dealing with MSFT. It's a case of "bend over, because
they're going to shove your wallet up your rear after they've robbed
you blind." That's the way they do business. I won't go into
details because I have no desire to give MSFT lawyers something to
play with. Suffice it to say that given her personal experience with
MSFT, she has NO trouble believing that everything the judge found is
true, and only a fraction of what MSFT really pulled. And no, I'm
not just talking about an aggressive company being aggressive.
Gary
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