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Living in Seattle and having worked with numerous companies I'm going to happily contest this: Your statement is simply not true, all the way around.
by cnp 12y ago
Living in Seattle and having worked with numerous companies I'm going to happily contest this: Your statement is simply not true, all the way around.
- BlakePetersen 12y agoThanks for the feedback, that definitely seems like the consensus.
- BlakePetersen 12y agoAs someone who seems to have a lot of insight into this, to the best of your knowledge, could you speak to what factors would most heavily influence this decision (in the context of being made by a founder in Seattle)? Was MS never even in the running or could it possibly boil down to the cost issue I touched on or perhaps that founders or early engineers chose a different route due to past personal exposure (and would you feel that the financial barrier of entry is a factor in limiting these engineers to this MS software exposure)? Would have a bit of incentives from MS like reduced license costs steered those early conversations in a different direction or is it simply that the software they offer isn't up to snuff with your particular use cases?
- cnp 12y agoNot to sound snarky, but it comes down to the simple fact that Seattle is a major American city, with many many many people, and is riding upon an internet wave that excludes no one. Your argument may apply historically, but now --definitely not. Everyone is simply doing their own thing, incentives or not.