On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:10 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > Hmm, interesting, having seen all the weird and crazy crap which money > > is dedicated to, you'll think that scraping a few thousand for pcfs > > wouldn't be too much of a big request. > > Too bad you're not running Sun. It would be so much easier to get > resources with a guy like you, you're willing to fund just about anything > that seems useful. > > Of course you probably would have a hard time jugglin' the balance sheets > at the end of the day, but you could probably get away with that for at > least a quarter (i.e., 3 months) before the shareholders started to ask > WTF you were doing...;-)
Pardon? So funding pie in the sky ideas which have no eventual outcome is a great way to spend money? christ, look at the crap Xerox was spending R&D money on that actually produced no products for the market place. You spend money on real problems that exist today, no intellectual masturbation sessions that might tinkle a programmers fancy but isn't going to actually address the real world problems today. PCFS sucks, address that for starters; hardware support sucks - management need to get off their fat chuff and start doing the rounds; door to doo, company to company, getting them on board; sitting back and 'letting the programmers do it" brings me to question why the heck they're paid the thousands when they're doing no work what so ever! > > Unless sun management rattle their dags and demand specifications from > > Microsoft (under the agreement they signed with them) you'll probably > > have to wait till Windows Vista SP1 is released before being able to > > dissect it. > > Couldn't someone like you reverse engineer it? Why always put the onus on > Sun's management? They don't even do the development.;-) No, Management are the voice piece for the company - you really think that Mr Lone Developer is going to be taken seriously by a company? if thats how Sun develops relationships then that explains why nothing has been achieved with getting the specifications from AMD. Management creates the relationship, they negotiate what is required, then you the 'little people' fight over what help you need in getting the specifications turned into a working product. To expect a programmer to do the work of management is stupid and irresponsible. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
