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Cringley on Microsoft and Linux

Posted by michael on from the a-week-without-cringley-is-like-a-week-without-sunshine dept.

brentlaminack writes "Time for this week's dose of I, Cringely. This week the Cringe talks about Ballmer's Orlando comments from this week. He compares Ballmer's comments with Linus's. Nothing new here for the /. group, but a good read for the non-technical."

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  1. Whose Butt Is on the Line? by Bug-Y2K · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    Seriously: Has anyone ever been fired from Microsoft for writing insecure or buggy code? I don't think so.

    I live and work near Redmond and know many Microserfs.... Both blue badges and permatemps. I've never heard any of them saying anything about anyone being fired for quality issues.

    Sure there was the guy who offed himself in the 911 on highway 522 because he didn't get promoted (taking out some elderly tourists in a motor home as a bonus). Then there was the guy who stole/resold a few mil $$ worth of software that then died... of "mysterious causes."

    But actually *FIRED*??? Not yet.

    I think that would be a great motivator to assist "Trustworthy Computing" to live up to its name. Take the bozos responsible for the latest RPC vulnerabilities and FIRE the whole damn group in a very public fashion. Of course a public execution would be even better, but Microsoft doesn't have *that* much political clout here in Washington State. I'm sure the current administration in "the other Washington" would allow it under some provision of the Patriot Act, but as far as I know, only Boeing and the penitentiary in Walla Walla have the authority to actually kill people around here.

    C'mon Ballmer! Live up to your promise and SACK SOMEBODY NOW!