[CS-FSLUG] NI: Getting a handle on Windows Vista

[mash.]

> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 11:38 pm, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > "Anyone at MickySoft" includes the programmers to which I referred. The
> > term MickySoft refers to the quality of their workmanship, I presume. I
> > was just making it clear to you that the programmers are solid coders,
> > who are not granted the incredible luxury that OSS programmers have:
> > setting their own deadlines. You insult a vast group of people,
> > because you lack the precision to say, "You don't expect anyone in
> > Microsoft's PR department to be honest, do you?".

If you would allow me, in a somewhat clumsy fashion, to jump into this
thread. 

Fred, I think you need to be careful in the generalisation of workmanship
in MS. Programmers will be doing their jobs to the best of their
ability. Whether
this means some incredibly talented programming around known bugs or
development with "maybe" inefficient tool sets.

Every now and then your comments come across as labeling MS and its 
product base as pure evil. Which I do believe is not fair.
I know a MS developer and beta tester who loves the company, and works
incredibly hard for MS. He is also devout Christian and family man who takes
incredible pride in his coding. I do know he disagrees with MS policy like 
the rest of us but he does not feel they are any eviler then say Starbucks. 

We all know MS's jaded history and how and why they have got where they are. 
But I also believe this due to hard work, fantastic company morale and
brilliant development. I think you owe MS developers all over the
world an apology.

Mash.