Thanks @nl, quite right -- and I do recall, having been there -- but my point was not that Ballmer had all the right ideas(!), rather that his emphasis on devel

Thanks @nl, quite right -- and I do recall, having been there -- but my point was not that Ballmer had all the right ideas(!), rather that his emphasis on developers led eventually to the org (under Satya) embracing OSS which IMHO represents a logical (tho far from inevitable) progression or evolution.