Gates on Yahoo: It's the people

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10 points·edw519··7 comments

I wonder if he will allow the great engineers to use their own software or force a shift into Microsoft technologies.

From pg's Great Hackers:

"What do hackers want? Like all craftsmen, hackers like good tools. In fact, that's an understatement. Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools. They'll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure."

actually it's funny if you read again the news title mentally replacing Gates as gates!

"A nightmare scenario for the company would be if it succeeds in its bid to acquire Yahoo, only to see its top talent move to new ventures."

Let's ask the yHaus folks what they think.

Yeah, with Rasmus Lerdorf being a Yahoo! employee, I don't think those asp.net nazi's will allow php to roam in the Microsoft camp.

So that values each employee (5000 total approx.) at about $8,920,000?

That's either a lie or complete madness. Why doesn't he just put up some job ads with an annual salary of $1 million dollars?

Only if you take a naive first-grader's ultra-literal reading of what was said.

>Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company's products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo's engineers.

No where does he say that all the other stuff is worth $0.

Let the games begin!

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