From: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

* Author: Bo Simonsen
BS>  I mean do you actually believe that Microsoft would make a
BS>  VM for Linux?

    The customer base is in web business.  The .net VM is only a
 useful tool if the web businesses are using it, making it more
 advantageous for the customers to have it too.  It makes more
 sense to supply a Linux .Net VM and to achieve market saturation
 than to not do so and thereby make it unnecessary for a portion
 of the computing world to have it.

BS>  Sorry, I'm just sick of hearing Microsoft are _allways_ doing
BS>  the right thing, and Microsoft's products is _allways_ the
BS>  best...

    It is a large, well-paid team of programmers.  Money talks.
 They are focused, driven, goal oriented, and on a deadline.
 Microsoft just employs and directs ordinary programmers, whose
 only job is to produce working code for commercial distribution.
 No mystery in that it is good, only in why it is not better.
 Given conditions, it should be utterly fantastic.  There must be
 some trade-off between focus and purpose, where the purpose must
 become to pick up a paycheck and the focus is determined by the
 management staff.  That may be squelching the creative spark
 which should be common in a hive of programmers.  Or would a
 collective of programmers be called an array?  :)

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