our friend Bill

[John Larkin]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120607,00.asp


John

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120607,00.asp

John

If limits are increased, then he can hire them (more supply = better
quality at lower prices). If not, he'll open or expand offshore
development facilities and can claim that he tried. Either way he
wins.

"U.S. engineers currently suffer from a higher unemployment rate than
the does the U.S. population as a whole"

Hmm.. didn't know that.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Larkin]

If limits are increased, then he can hire them (more supply = better
quality at lower prices).

But that's not the way Windows is designed. It's quantity (as in
hundreds of millions of lines of code, thousands of undocumented APIs,
thousands of DLLs) that keeps anybody else from competing with
Microsoft. The poor quality keeps everybody upgrading into the
forseeable future.

If not, he'll open or expand offshore
development facilities and can claim that he tried. Either way he
wins.

Certainly he wins. That's all that matters to some people.

"U.S. engineers currently suffer from a higher unemployment rate than
the does the U.S. population as a whole"

Hmm.. didn't know that.

That's probably accounted for by the .com bubble, which directed lots
of kids into engineering school and subsequent career dead-ends.

John

 

[Frank Miles]

But that's not the way Windows is designed. It's quantity (as in
hundreds of millions of lines of code, thousands of undocumented APIs,
thousands of DLLs) that keeps anybody else from competing with
Microsoft. The poor quality keeps everybody upgrading into the
forseeable future.


Certainly he wins. That's all that matters to some people.



That's probably accounted for by the .com bubble, which directed lots
of kids into engineering school and subsequent career dead-ends.

Yet our fearless leaders are continuing to ask for easing immigration
requirements for technically skilled people, egged on by companies like
Microsoft, despite this apparent glut.

-f
--

 

[Kevin Aylward]

Yet our fearless leaders are continuing to ask for easing immigration
requirements for technically skilled people, egged on by companies
like Microsoft, despite this apparent glut.

As usual, peoples opinions are always fuelled by self interest. Mr.
Gates only wants cheap labour, it keeps his costs down, and he will
never be in the labour market himself,

Kevin Aylward
[email protected]
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
SuperSpice, a very affordable Mixed-Mode
Windows Simulator with Schematic Capture,
Waveform Display, FFT's and Filter Design.

 

[John Smith]

As usual, peoples opinions are always fuelled by self interest. Mr.
Gates only wants cheap labour, it keeps his costs down, and he will
never be in the labour market himself,

Don't get me wrong: I abhor Microsoft's busniess practices as much as the
next guy. But don't be jealous of normal busniess practise in wanting to
keep costs down - it happens in every company, not just Bill's.

I'm sure as one stage of his life, Bill was in the job market. He saw a gap,
took it, ran with it, and is now hated for it. I don't get it - the American
dream, but you're not allowed to actually attain the dream?

 

[Keith Williams]

Don't get me wrong: I abhor Microsoft's busniess practices as much as the
next guy. But don't be jealous of normal busniess practise in wanting to
keep costs down - it happens in every company, not just Bill's.

I'm sure as one stage of his life, Bill was in the job market. He saw a gap,
took it, ran with it, and is now hated for it. I don't get it - the American
dream, but you're not allowed to actually attain the dream?

It's got nothing to do with the American dream. I suppose Ken Lay is
your hero too? After all, I'm sure he was in the job market at one
point, saw a gap, ran with it too.

 

[petrus bitbyter]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120607,00.asp


John

Can't say I hate old uncle Billy but I sure don't like his businessmethods
and calling him a friend goes way, way too far.

petrus bitbyter

 

[John Larkin]

Don't get me wrong: I abhor Microsoft's busniess practices as much as the
next guy. But don't be jealous of normal busniess practise in wanting to
keep costs down - it happens in every company, not just Bill's.

Not every company.

John

 

[Mark Zenier]

I'm sure as one stage of his life, Bill was in the job market.

Actually, no. He dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft, so
the closest he came to a real job was (as I remember reading) a
summmer job programming in COBOL for the Army Corps of Engineers.

In addition, his old man was one of the town's leading business
lawyers and his mom was a member of one of the local banker's
families. With connections like that...

Mark Zenier [email protected] Washington State resident

 

[JeffM]

Gates only wants cheap labour, it keeps his costs down

I don't get it - the American dream,
but you're not allowed to actually attain the dream?
John Smith

At whose expense?

don't be jealous of normal [business] practise in wanting to
keep costs down - it happens in every company, not just Bill's.

Tell it to this guy:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Feuerstein+Malden-Mills+his-employees

 

[Ardent]

X-No-Archive: yes

his mom was a member of one of the local banker's
families

IIRC, she was connected with IBM hence the chance to supply DOS in the
first instance.