Re: Bill Gates doesn't want Americans working for him

[John Bailo]

billwg wrote:

> It's the difference between development and research, John.  Does that 
> mean anything to you?  Development for large projects, say Windows, is a 
> team thing and best done, according to Bill Gates, at a common site. 

So no programming on Windows should be done except in Redmond?

Yet, all the programming for Linux was done worldwide using the 
Internet...and it's a superior product.


> Research, OTOH, is an individual sort of thing and can be done in a 
> scattered manner wherein access to support equipment and services is the 
> significant issue rather than team interaction.

Ok, so why did they build Microsoft Research in Redmond?

Why not just distribute grants to universities 'scattered' ?


The whole OSS movement proves that the Internet is a superior management 
system over the Redmond Command & Control system.