On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:18:14 -0500, Stephan Rose wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:34:45 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Stephan Rose
nospammer.com> writes:
>> >>> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:07:05 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:09:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> Borland fights big brain suck
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>>>>>| Fierce competitors Microsoft Corp. and Borland International, Inc.
>>>>>have moved | their battle from the networked desktop to the
>>>>>courtroom. | | Borland last week filed suit against Microsoft,
>>>>>alleging that the Redmond, | Wash., giant has been systematically
>>>>>recruiting Borland developers in an | attempt to eliminate the
>>>>>company as a competitor. Microsoft and Borland are | rivals in the
>>>>>budding Java and Internet tools markets. |
>>>>>| [...]
>>>>>|
>>>>>| The suit alleges that Microsoft's Bill Gates himself sweetened the
>>>>>pot. Gross | eventually accepted the offer, which included an
>>>>>additional half-million | dollar bonus, last September. | | A
>>>>>noticeably angry Borland CEO Del Yocam complained about the nerve of
>>>>>| Microsoft. "How flagrant, driving limos up to the front of the
>>>>>company. That | is what riles you," Yocam complained. Yocam said his
>>>>>No. 1 goal is to get | Microsoft to stop recruiting.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Someday you will learn that it is all about money Roy Schestowitz.
>>>>
>>>> And I suspect that you and Mark Kent would be standing in line to get
>>>> into one of those limos and partake of the 1/2 million dollar bonus
>>>> as well.
>>>>
>>>> Most people would and those that claim they wouldn't are either
>>>> lying, already set up financially, don't have the skills needed (like
>>>> you for example) or are just plain crazy.
>>>>
>>>> Borland is just pissed because their products are no longer top tier.
>>>
>>> Wait a moment. "are no longer top tier"? When was anything Borland
>>> *ever* top tier?
>>
>> Borland C++ 2.0 (c 1990) and its GUI and DOS IDE kicked the crap out of
>> pretty much anything else at the time for PC development.
>>
>> Their Turbo series won awards left right and centre before Linux was
>> just a stirring in Linus's pants.
>
> Ahh, that explains things. I was a little too young at that time to be
> concerned with programming IDE's. =)
Come to think of it, I honestly don't even know if I had a PC in 1990...
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Stephan
1986 Pontiac Fiero GT
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