On 11-Dec-05, at 1:15 AM, kalyan wrote:
The Code4Bill contest will begin in January and last eight months. Twenty finalists will receive internships with Microsoft India before a final winner is selected to join Mr. Gates's own team.
Pray what is Mr. Gates's own team? Mr. Gates owns the effing company. Joining his team could mean anything from architecting Xbox 720 to plugging and unplugging all kinds of devices day after day to test the reliability of the Add New Hardware Wizard. It's as ambiguous as it gets.
It is not clear Microsoft has indicated the contest is out of concern for open source's growing popularity, or if the reporter interprets it so. The reporter happens to be based in Bangalore, where a major open source conference recently concluded. Who wants to take a guess?
This article could have done with being more level-headed. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://www.pobox.com/~jace
