From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 22 10:41:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5953D37B41B for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:41:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a070.otenet.gr [212.205.215.70]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2MIepIg022059; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:40:59 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2MIenbe032616; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:40:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2MIemXW032615; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:40:48 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:40:47 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, Charles Burns Subject: Re: Advocacy help for CS professor Message-ID: <20020322184047.GC31556@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020322013138.A87120@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020322111245.GA26042@hades.hell.gr> <3C9B571F.1090101@pittgoth.com> <001101c1d1c7$67cf4ae0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c1d1c7$67cf4ae0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-22 09:31, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > The truth is, Microsoft picks up quite a bit of the world's best > programming talent. Whether they use that talent wisely, that's a > management issue. Let's keep this in mind. They have 'a bit' of the world's best programmers. Not all of them. That needs to be made clear, and this is what I wrote earlier. > I know that's not all there is to being a good software engineer, but I > believe you need to give them the benefit of the doubt and not accuse > them of incompetence based on their unrelated other-department coworkers. Fair is fair. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message