Rick Segal
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Rick Segal
days developers higher inability influence lack standards
When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.
actively company consider found leaving microsoft producing products
I found they were not only leaving the company, they were going ABM . . . anything but Microsoft. They were actively producing products that Microsoft would consider competitors.