If you can't beat them, hire them.

Post #152,037 by altmann 4/21/04 2:36:05 AM Reply	If you can't beat them, hire them. "Microsoft has hired one of its worst enemies, the SuSE Linux salesman whose efforts led the city of Munich to adopt Linux and open-source software instead of Microsoft's products." [link\|http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5195902.html?tag=nl\|http://news.com.com/...95902.html?tag=nl] -- Chris Altmann
Post #152,093 by ben_tilly 4/21/04 2:43:56 PM 4/21/04 2:44:11 PM Reply	Old strategy of Microsoft's Sometimes Microsoft doesn't even worry much about whether they have a use for the hire. Denying good employees to their major competitors is enough for them. (They also tried to hire Alan Cox a few years ago, and got a raspberry for their efforts.) Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act - [link\|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20\|Nebraska Supreme Court] Edited by ben_tilly April 21, 2004, 02:44:11 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #152,244 by a6l6e6x 4/22/04 3:15:39 PM Reply	Indeed. [link\|http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa112902b.htm\|MS's .Net IS Borland's Product]. \ufffd Among the defecting workers were Paul Gross, Borland's senior R&D VP, and Anders Hejlsberg, a major player in the development of Borland's technology. \ufffd Microsoft offered Paul Gross a $1 million signing bonus, stock options, and title to real estate near Microsoft's headquarters. He left Borland for Microsoft in September 1996. \ufffd Microsoft offered Anders Hejlsberg a signing bonus of $1.5 million and stock options. Microsoft doubled the bonus to $3 million after Borland made a counter-offer. Hejlsberg left Borland in October 1996. Alex Sacred cows make the best hamburger. --Mark Twain
Post #152,566 by CRConrad 4/25/04 6:45:23 PM Reply	Coupla nits about Anders Hejlsberg From [link\|http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa112902b.htm\|the article Alex quoted:] During his time with Borland he extended its' Turbo Pascal compiler. Eventually he became the chief architect for the team which produced the replacement for Turbo Pascal - Delphi. Actually, he created Turbo Pascal, even before it was a Borland product (and probably before it was called "Turbo"); Phillipe Kahn employed Anders and brought him over to the States, and bought his compiler at the same time. Further, from the same article: As a chief architect at Borland, Hejlsberg secretly turned Turbo Pascal into an object-oriented application development language, complete with a truly visual environment and superb database-access features. Uh, since Delphi was sold to millions of customers world-wide, it's hardly all that "secret", now is it... [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]

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