[SATLUG] IO-InfoOnly: Great Read at "Strange new worlds, and programming languages..."

[Robert Pearson]

"Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!"
Monday, September 11, 2006
<<http://peterwright.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-bye-microsoft-pete-has-now-left.html>>

[Article excerpt]
"So, today I resigned my job, and completely ended my Microsoft
career. I have taken a role as Director with a company at the leading
edge of the "Web 2.0" curve. My team and I will write Ruby on Rails
code, use Macintosh computers to do so, shun Microsoft technology
completely, go to work in shorts and sandals and blast each other with
nerf guns. My team is devoted to being the best it can be, to
learning, to improving, to pushing boundaries. And it's not Microsoft.

I'm writing this on my Mac using NeoOffice Writer while the PC under
my desk is, for the last time ever, removing Windows and all the
trappings that go with it to install Ubuntu Linux. My Microsoft career
is now officially over.
Microsoft don't innovate, in my opinion. Vista looks like a pile of
crap compared to Mac OS X and Ubuntu with GLX. Their software is
buggy, overpriced, and stress inducing. Their development tools are
staid, designed and developed by committees to solve every problem you
could ever conceive of, while being ideally suited to solving none.

The people that write code for a living with Microsoft technologies
(by and large -= not all, and if you're reading a blog about coding
then you're probably not included in this generalization) are day
coders. They code to pick up a pay check – they have no passion, no
drive, little talent and create environments filled with tedium and
political bullshit.

Today, I've resigned to leave that world behind forever, and I
couldn't be happier.

Microsoft are the new IBM, and Microsoft customers are just like the
huge corporate suit wearing monoliths that bought into the whole IBM
mirage back in the 70's and 80's. I don't want to work for IBM. I just
want to write cool software with talented passionate people, and make
a difference in the world. I want to push the boundaries again like I
did in the 80's and early 90's. I want to have fun and come home with
a smile and a hug for my wife and kids instead of trudging through the
door burdened with stress induced by boredom and corporate ineptitude.


Good bye Microsoft. It's been emotional!

posted by Pete Wright at 6:07 PM  "