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To: Mitchell Jones who wrote (3450)	7/21/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 10309

>>I did not mean to suggest Bill Gates or Jerry Fiddler are perfectly happy with the compensation required to attract and keep people -- I suspect the opposite is true. I intended to convey that both are doing what is required in the labor pool available to them. To bash them when no real choices are available seems unfair.<< I don't interpret Pirah's remarks as "bashing". Michael Greene, a long-time WIND shareholder and well-respected member of this forum, posed this stock options issue as a "devil's advocate". >>As to the necessity for public policy initiatives to support the education of a larger supply of programmers, I suspect the salaries being paid will affect the choices of young people to the extent that supply will equal demand long before public policy initiatives could have a measurable impact. I don't object to public policy initiatives -- I simply have more faith in the market place than in public policy.<< Am I wrong in assuming that most engineers and programmers are trained in public educational institutions? How about more scholarships for engineering/computer science students? And shifting more funding to those departments? -Greg p.s. Mitch, you are really behind on your joke quota :)