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Simonyi, Martha, American Values

Excellent Article! Think about Microsoft, the Microsoft Way, and the American Dream. It use to be that a US citizen dreamed of coming up with a great idea and then by hard work and following the law he could become as wealthy as Bill Gates. Today the US citizen's dream is to amass enough wealth to move out of country. Law abiding or not.

Think about that. Simonyi's Word program is well known as a convoluted mess that no intelligent coder would touch and I think it had to be completely rewritten for Office 7. But Simonyi has or soon literally will leave the planet. Does he care about the demise of WordPerfect? by product disparagement, now settled but now clearly better than his Word. Does any one who's goal is to leave the US and take as much wealth as possible from this country?

Does Simonyi care that the US citizens were duped into a product that professionals pointed out time and time again was inferior to WordPerfect? Will he support Word 1.0 (the correct consumer labeling of the Office 7 flavor of word now sold by Microsoft?

Or - will he remedy his rotten legacy, support open office, industry standards, the proletariat. Will he be like Martha?

Oh let him be like Martha. How fine a story it will be.

Regardless, let us not hold Simonyi as an example of good from H1-Bs for rather he is the best example of bad from them. If not for the inferiority of Word, Microsoft may have competed on merits against WordPerfect instead of perfecting its monopolistic methods.

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

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