>I've found that most corporate management is inclined to devalue >in-house programmers, and to assume that anything developed by the big >players must be superior. I remember, decades ago, informing my >department head that I'd fixed an error in a commonly used routine >that had been supplied by IBM. I was completely unprepared for his >reaction: He blew up, and berated me for having the audacity to >suggest I was capable of finding an error in code written by IBM.
That is what happens when the clueless are put in charge. Many years ago I had a friend whose main job was correcting and extending the OS supplied by IBM. This was put to an abrupt end when IBM decided to make all their OS code secret. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
