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To: Jacques Tootight who wrote (11781)	9/14/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

>> MSFT has an amazingly talented bunch of programmers,... >Which ones are responsible for the dreaded blue screen? I'm as likely as anyone to make fun of MSFT products, and I don't like the company, but I have quite a few friends up there and pretty much everyone I know around here knows several very good people that MSFT got in the last 3-4 years. As one friend said, "That giant sucking sound you hear is MicroSoft taking talent out of the valley." I think that MSFT is probably in for a bumpy ride for a while, but dismissing them would be a big mistake. Linux (which appears to have a chance of becoming real, to my delight) exists because a smart kid got tired of waiting for "the hurd" to do something about the GNU O/S. MSFT has a lot of smart people that aren't kids anymore, and I can tell you from personal experience that a fairly small team of smart people can turn things around even for a big company.