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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 491.04+1.7%3:59 PM EST

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To: Ed Yander who wrote (10262)8/25/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre   of 74651
 
Ed Yander,

>>This Linux freeware insanity is contributing to lowering the status of the software engineer in societies class structure. No wonder universities are finding people less interested in taking computer science.

Maybe the so-called "software engineers" who are feeling a lower status are ones who only carry the title anyways. Real software engineers will always be in demand; hacks will find something else to do that pays well. Who wants to spend four years in college to administer a web-page or do NT reboots for a living? Its a waste of an education to be an MSCE or Excel Guru. The more freeware the better, it will release resources to be used more effectively somewhere else.

Cheers,

Norm
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