Marco Peereboom wrote:
Microsoft spends $10B on R&D. That is nearly the ENTIRE budget of NASA.
They are the classic example of organizations that are completely out of
control and rely entirely on some process that is "good enough". Anyone
who has written code that directly interacts with their APIs knows how
completely disjoint their development teams are. They don't even adhere
to the same damn style for functions calls.
If you really want to have some fun with that number go figure out where
they make their money. Then figure out how much each line of code cost.
Pretty baffling stuff.
Hmm, a $10B R&D donation for OpenBSD.
I wonder what could be accomplished with what was left over after the
beer was accounted for? :)
