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18 Years in Software Tools, an Insider's View

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-from-history dept.

calumtdalek writes "Newsforge (Also owned by VA) has an article on a talk given by Rico Mariani, an eighteen-year veteran at Microsoft, in which he speaks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, sharing his unique take on the history of, and controversies surrounding, Microsoft and the industry in general. Particularly illuminating are his responses to advocates of free/open-source software. The talk can also be download from the csclub's media server"

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  1. Wow by bgog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good talk but man that guy is whiney. He sound's like my four-year-old.

  2. Re:18 Years? Wow... by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    My guys. My friends. My paisans. They're very smart guys. Wise, even. You could call them my wiseguys.

    Now, Don Stallman, he's a very smart guy too. And you know, me and my guys, we got respect for him and his guys. Cause you gotta have respect.

    --
    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.