Re: BK is *evil* corporate software [was Re: New BK License Problem?]

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 11:52:10 EST


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> > yodaiken@fsmlabs.com writes:
> >
> >
> >>But it is interesting that you can hire a full time "really good"
> >>programmer for total cost of $50K/year. Salaries are dropping.
> >
> >
> > For small and medium companies (such as Siemens...), $50k (or the
> > rough aequivalent of EUR 50k) are already good developers salary.
>
>
> You consider Siemens a medium company? ;-) They're friggin huge... 42
> companies under their umbrella when I worked for them 10 years ago...
> Siemens AG was one of the world's largest conglomerates...
>
> Jeff
>
 
...and they own and control more of the world than anything else,
including the world's major armies, ever has during recorded history.
If they were to abuse their power, Siemens could control the ultimate
destiny of mankind. Scarey!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
The US military has given us many words, FUBAR, SNAFU, now ENRON.
Yes, top management were graduates of West Point and Annapolis.

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