This is going to be interesting; sleep with one eye open, Mr. Ballmer, sleep with one eye open...
Edit: for the downvoters who probably don't "get" the reference, out startup (Fogbeam Labs) are now competing with Microsoft since we're in this same "enterprise 2.0" space as Yammer.
Anyway, Mr. Ballmer... "never mind that noise you heard, it's just the beast under your bed." :-)
And this is why I love HN... Nothing like showing a little support for one of our own. :-)
It's not like we're the scrappy, underdog competitor, building Open Source products that will contribute to the world whether we ever make a dime or not, while Microsoft are the original Evil Empire of Software - monopolistic, profiteering gluttons who will do anything to make a buck.
le sigh it's all right, I still love you guys anyway. :-)
You seem to come across as petulant rather than someone who is challenging an entrenched competitor with innovation or whatever. Less talking, more doing. Just a thought.
You seem to come across as petulant rather than someone who is challenging an entrenched competitor with innovation or whatever.
I'm not sure how "petulant"[1] fits into this, but OK.
Less talking, more doing. Just a thought.
We don't do a lot of talking, is the thing. One offhand comment on HN so far... I have to say, I'm a bit surprised at the downvote frenzy. No Metallica fans here, I suppose. sigh
As for doing, if you find somebody doing more "doing" than we do, mark it down on a calendar. I've coded until my wrists feel like they're about to fall off, put in 100 hour weeks for week after week after week after week after week, flown back and forth from Chicago to RDU dozens of times just to keep in touch with my co-founders, and sacrificed more opportunities to go out with my friends, go on dates, or otherwise have fun, than I can count... to write code, do customer development work, do market research, competitive intelligence, you name it. If we fail, it won't be for lack of "doing," that I can promise.
Geez, I'm not usually so defensive either, but I find your comment amusing given the circumstances.
Edit: for the downvoters who probably don't "get" the reference, out startup (Fogbeam Labs) are now competing with Microsoft since we're in this same "enterprise 2.0" space as Yammer.
Anyway, Mr. Ballmer... "never mind that noise you heard, it's just the beast under your bed." :-)