Re: [SLUG] What do you all think?

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 11:43:12 EDT


> > Linus Torvalds isn't the anti-Gates. He and Gates are much the same;
> > they're nice, easygoing guys who do what they feel is best for their
> > products to succeed, even at the expense of users and/or customers.
>
> From what I've read, Gates is anything but easygoing. He is apparently
> quite hard to work with, particularly for subordinates. If Gates could
> be characterized as "easygoing", it would only be because he's the
> richest man in the world, so he could chuck it all if he wanted to.

You could be right; I've never met him. I'm only going by what I've
read and heard from people who have met him (although I don't think
any of those worked for him - that may have made a critical
difference).

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