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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (6519)	10/25/2002 2:14:11 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Respond to of 6974

Thanks, your expression of the problems with MSFT was a lot clearer than mine. I too have felt the strange disconnect between the individuals (intelligent, friendly, cooperative) and the results (really disappointing). I asked a friend of mine that worked there why this was, and he said that while engineers got to drive the technical details, they left the business side of things entirely up to the management, in whom they had a lot of faith since the company had made lots of them very rich. (And the people that started there as kids don't have a clue since they never worked anyplace else.) The thing that I find quite sad is that, just as with IBM before them, this insistence on dominating every business they touch seems quite stupid to me. If they were more open and cooperative, it's true that they'd have a smaller piece of the pie, but it would be a lot bigger pie. I was initially fooled by OLE into thinking that they were going to open up the O/S so that people could add new services, and I got quite excited about this, thinking that it would mean that NT would evolve into the only platform that I'd have to program for. At about that time another friend said to me that Linux (which barely existed at that point) was the coming best hope, and I said that it would never make any headway against NT unless MSFT failed to open up, since there was no particular technical advantage to Linux. Well, I was right about how to make Linux a success, and I find it painful to watch all those talented people in Redmond produce such junky software.