Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 31, 2003 05:45 PM
"last I heard he wasn't giving it back to his software engineers (SEs)"
You heard that from someone who doesn't know what he or she talks about.
"... BTW do you know any rich SEs at MS<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... I"
Yes, there are lots. No company on the planet have generated so many dollar millionaires as MS, and lots of them are software engineers. A big part of people’s salaries on Microsoft is connected to the sales of the products they work on.
"I only hear stuff from the rich MS pointy heads."
You have simply been given the wrong information.
"Every time I buy milk at the grocery store I put bucks in Bill's wallet "
So? You put money into the drivers who deliver the milk from the farms to the milk producer and from there to the store as well. There are a number of people working on giving you that milk, is it supposed to be wrong to pay them all? If software is needed or gives advantages in the process that should be paid for as well.
However, my posts are still not about Microsoft vs. Linux.
I simply state that we in the IT-industry as a large has serious and horribly revenue problems at this point.
The recession matters of cause since spending goes down. It's, however, not as big factor as the fact that the value in products and services has been dumped. In most cases venture capital has been used to cover for the loss made by the price dumps, the revenue has been smaller than the salaries that needs to be paid out alone.
It's not healthy business, that’s all there is to say about it really and there must be a genuine change in how business is done if this industry should ever be able to get out of this mess.
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Re:Wake-up already!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 31, 2003 05:45 PMYou heard that from someone who doesn't know what he or she talks about.
"... BTW do you know any rich SEs at MS<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... I"
Yes, there are lots. No company on the planet have generated so many dollar millionaires as MS, and lots of them are software engineers. A big part of people’s salaries on Microsoft is connected to the sales of the products they work on.
"I only hear stuff from the rich MS pointy heads."
You have simply been given the wrong information.
"Every time I buy milk at the grocery store I put bucks in Bill's wallet "
So? You put money into the drivers who deliver the milk from the farms to the milk producer and from there to the store as well. There are a number of people working on giving you that milk, is it supposed to be wrong to pay them all? If software is needed or gives advantages in the process that should be paid for as well.
However, my posts are still not about Microsoft vs. Linux.
I simply state that we in the IT-industry as a large has serious and horribly revenue problems at this point.
The recession matters of cause since spending goes down. It's, however, not as big factor as the fact that the value in products and services has been dumped. In most cases venture capital has been used to cover for the loss made by the price dumps, the revenue has been smaller than the salaries that needs to be paid out alone.
It's not healthy business, that’s all there is to say about it really and there must be a genuine change in how business is done if this industry should ever be able to get out of this mess.
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