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It Is about Quality but it is also about Business Sence

If you are a manufacturer and you want to sell in Europe you need to meet EU quality standards. Lets say you build boats (rather than software.) The EU sets a standard for say wiring in boats and lets say your boats do not use the wire specified as the standard.

Now lets assume that you know the wire in your boat is better than the EU spec but that it is not possible to document the superior quality of your wire without some extensive work. Since you are a businessman and not a lawyer, you are not interested in proving superiority at a high cost. So you just wire the boats bound for EU to the EU spec.

This example demonstrates why companies run by legals are poorly run companies. Microsoft's Brad Smith is running the company today. He is incapable of business sense. Microsoft need only ship its products with the current ISO standard. If it were operated as a legitimate company it would already be doing so.

Let's start a petition to remove Brad Smith from Microsoft. Microsoft is being operated as a law firm. It is not right.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 04/05/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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