"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> If I ran a software company, I'd do the same thing. Software companies do
> not exist to keep programmers supplied with money to buy action figures and
> killer game systems.
That's pretty insulting to programmers. Thanks.
> They make software to sell. If they have no software
> to sell, they make no money. If they make no money, they can't pay the
> programmers, and the programmers have to sell their Playstations to survive.
> Thus, while I don't really enjoy all aspects of corporate life, I'm
> comfortable with the trade off. I'm willing to forgo surfing the web in
> exchange for a paycheck, which gives me food, shelter and comic books.
You don't seem to have a good grasp on what is involved in programming -
it's often a matter of inspiration; its not, for the majority of
programmers I know and work with, something that you turn on at 9am and
off at 5pm.
-j-
