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Comment by CurtHagenlocher | Hacker News Reader

Racist comments about CEOs of Indian origin have no place on Hacker News.

The sad thing is that I'm of Indian heritage and I have to agree with him. It's not related to race, it's more about the education that most Indians receive. All are taught more about being bean-counters than striving to create new and innovative (gah, hate that word) solutions. I like the Metro approach. It just needs to be split into two configurations for both desktop and a tablet OS, and Microsoft could have a real winner.

I'm afraid that we'll backtrack all the way back to the 7 days and inhibit progress. It's been shown to happen in the past, and it's not an illegitimate concern, however racist it may seem.

it's more about the education that most Indians receive.

He was educated in the US. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella: "Nadella earned an MS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business."

For what it's worth (and I don't plan to weigh-in on the topic of Indian education one way or the other, as I have no knowledge in this area) he did receive his BS in EE at Mangalore University[0], in India.

[0]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/nadella/

I don't think the OP implied it had anything to do with race. I maybe wrong.

Sanjay Jha was Motorola's CEO until the Motorola Mobility division was acquired by Google. Shantanu Narayen is Adobe's CEO.

I see a clear pattern here.

I'm open to other possible interpretations.

A sample size of 2 doesn't make for a compelling pattern.

I am Indian and I am heavily suspicious towards the very tow-the-line and do not argue attitude many have. Not saying I agree with the comment I responded to, but to say that some general level statements cannot be said is ridiculous.

Probably related to who is or was CEO of Adobe Moto. Anyways, correlation is not causation, or in this case, not even meaningful. It was a racist statement.

I'd just like to add it would be equally wrong regardless of the origin of the senior exec.

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