Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 01, 2003 05:13 AM
No company on the planet have generated so many dollar millionaires as MS
So what is the average SE's salary at MS<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... isn't no different than any other company<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... and did MS's $2.6B
profit
reported last year go to them<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... NO!!! MS may be generating millionaires by the dozen by monopolizing the software market and sucking gross profits from the guts of the average citizen, but the MS SEs that sign away all their rights to any IP they may develop when they're hired are not among them. Furthermore, I don't agree with you that MS is generating any more millionaires<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... just making the existing ones richer.
part of people salaries on Microsoft is connected to the sales of the products they work on.
This is not unique to MS. Most companies use profit sharing or goal programs to stimulate employee productivity.
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
Yes I do<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... and it's a fair price in a competitive market. The richest person in the world is not a truck driver or a person that owns a trucking company. There is fair competition in these markets which in turn provides a natural price regulation and normal profits on investment<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... The richest person in the world is an asshole who monopolized the software market using brutal marketing practices and closed source software as his ultimate weapon. Closed source software is designed to lock in, monopolize and abuse customers. THERE IS NOT FAIR COMPETITION IN THE SOFTWARE MARKET!!!!
I simply state that we in the IT-industry as a large has serious and horribly revenue problems at this point.
At this point like every other industry. I feel it is the abuse that the IT-industry and closed source delivered to the unknowing customers and investors in the 90's that has precipitated much of the recent economic problems. I feel that it not only cost industry but stifled development. I see open source as a natural corrective result of the problems close source has wrought.
the revenue has been smaller than the salaries that needs to be paid out alone.
The natural result of any over heated industry that has abused it's position. However, like I said above MS still reported $2.6B in profit last year<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... god save the monopolist and his ultimate weapon, closed source.
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Re:Wake-up already!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 01, 2003 05:13 AMNo company on the planet have generated so many dollar millionaires as MS
So what is the average SE's salary at MS<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... isn't no different than any other company<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... and did MS's $2.6B
profit
reported last year go to them<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... NO!!! MS may be generating millionaires by the dozen by monopolizing the software market and sucking gross profits from the guts of the average citizen, but the MS SEs that sign away all their rights to any IP they may develop when they're hired are not among them. Furthermore, I don't agree with you that MS is generating any more millionaires<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... just making the existing ones richer.part of people salaries on Microsoft is connected to the sales of the products they work on.
This is not unique to MS. Most companies use profit sharing or goal programs to stimulate employee productivity.
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
Yes I do<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... and it's a fair price in a competitive market. The richest person in the world is not a truck driver or a person that owns a trucking company. There is fair competition in these markets which in turn provides a natural price regulation and normal profits on investment<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... The richest person in the world is an asshole who monopolized the software market using brutal marketing practices and closed source software as his ultimate weapon. Closed source software is designed to lock in, monopolize and abuse customers. THERE IS NOT FAIR COMPETITION IN THE SOFTWARE MARKET!!!!
I simply state that we in the IT-industry as a large has serious and horribly revenue problems at this point.
At this point like every other industry. I feel it is the abuse that the IT-industry and closed source delivered to the unknowing customers and investors in the 90's that has precipitated much of the recent economic problems. I feel that it not only cost industry but stifled development. I see open source as a natural corrective result of the problems close source has wrought.
the revenue has been smaller than the salaries that needs to be paid out alone.
The natural result of any over heated industry that has abused it's position. However, like I said above MS still reported $2.6B in profit last year<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... god save the monopolist and his ultimate weapon, closed source.
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