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Ask HN: What is a good company for you?

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Re: Ask HN: What is a good company for you?

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At this point my needs to satisfy me are simple: Pay me a reasonable wage when you say you are going to pay it. Don’t make it a hassle to accomplish the task/job. Don’t ask me to manage people other than myself. Don’t ask me to travel more than 25% of the time. Most important, provide me effective and competent leadership.

I am nearing the end of my career, I could care less about changing the world through work/product, corporate activism and all that stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What is a good company for you?

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In one word: Microsoft They put a PC on every desk, today was a slow day and I used at least a dozen flavors of Microsoft….all of them for free. It’s also important to stress the free part, they don’t pursue piracy and just elect to recoup those losses by charging their Fortune 500 clients a bit more. People will point out to the DOJ proceedings in 2000, but I have no sympathy for paper millionaires who didnt cash ou…

We can't see the alternative world where another company or entity ended up being at the helm of the personal computer revolution. Since you mentioned the winner take all aspect that should orient the way we think about these companies.

Ok but Linux is not a company. They don’t understand that coders are people and have a variety of interests.

They want to pursue such interests via FIRE so Linux would have never worked.

DEC and IBM could have been the ones

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