Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: [ on 11:53 AM 12/11/2005 ]
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.
Not really - I understood it to mean that the winners of the contest get to be attached to the "Office of the Chairman" -- which means that they report to one of BillG's Technical Assistants, and work on stuff that BillG directly asks for.
Having such an office is fairly common practice at large corporations (and it isn't restricted to the Chairman, either - it could well be any of the CxOs.)
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?
I've asked Saritha to comment, let's see what she has to say. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
