Technogly Sith?

Seattle PI's Microsoft blog:

"'Microsoft is full of a lot of really good technologists. Probably one of my most exciting parts of the job is just how many people get technology at Microsoft and how fast they understand it."

Bill Hilf, former IBM linux specialist who now heads Microsoft's Linux and open-source lab as the company's director of platform technology strategy.

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Alas, if they only used their power for good and not evil. . .

(my alternate caption was: "sounds like there is a new replacement for the keg party! Good news: savings on health insurance pays for it; glaucoma at an all time low.")

Unfortunately, it is fun to slam Microsoft but it probably is not completely true. I don't doubt that the average worker is very smart. I don't think they are all Sith. Most of Oppenheimer's team really got the science; they just failed to realize how profit, greed, and shortsightedness would misuse their efforts.

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