After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007527&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
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> Iowa antitrust case: Microsoft exec called software developers 'pawns'
You missed the best part:
A Microsoft Corp. technical evangelist referred to independent
software developers writing for Windows and the company's other
software platforms as "pawns" and compared wooing them to convincing
someone to have a one-night stand, according to testimony presented
Friday against Microsoft in an ongoing antitrust case in Iowa.
. . .
In other comments about developers, Plamondon equated working with
them to taking someone out on a first date. "It's like you're going
out with a girl; forgive me, it goes the other way also. You're going
out with a girl, what you really want to do is have a deep, close and
intimate relationship, at least for one night. And, you know, you
just can't let her feel like that, because if you do, it ain't going
to happen, right. So you have to talk long term and white picket
fence and all these other wonderful things, or else you're never
going to get what you're really looking for."
Windows -- the one-night stand.
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Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals.
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