Spolsky Stands Firm on Linux on the Desktop

erlando writes: "SoftwareMarketSolution is running an interview with Joel Spolsky (from JoelOnSoftware) in which he responds to this earlier thread here on Slashdot. In short: He defends his position and makes some interesting remarks on Linux and the desktop."

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bitter much???

[Em Emalb]

From the article:

"Too many of my execs (except, for some reason, the VP of Development) are engineers. This leads to a whole host of problems: Many of them tend think they're smarter than people in non-engineering roles. Pursuant to this, they don't think PR and marketing and sales are "hard" or really even "important". Again after #1, they're always right when in disagreement with marketing or sales guys. Most of them haven't developed in a decade+, so now they know just enough to be dangerous -- make micromanaging decisions about detailed subjects things they don't understand well enough, chase unnecessarily after bleeding edge tech, etc. Fail to understand that not everyone wants to always work 14 hours a day. Laugh off meetings, so that eventually nobody in the company knows what's going on.

As a result, nobody's heard of us (no marketing budget, no trade shows, no nothing) and nobody's buying our products (engineers tend to make lousy sales guys; despite what they might believe, nobody wants to listen to a 3-hour ridiculously detailed presentation on your product)."

Dude, lets paint the whole frigging "army" of engineers that have moved into management with one broad paint stroke. How about MANAGING them, rather than bitching like this. Don't like what they are doing? Get rid of them. Bring in someone who gets the whole picture. Don't bitch, you make the situation no better, AND you are publicly critizing them. You go boy.