I wonder if he will allow the great engineers to use their own software or force a shift into Microsoft technologies.
From pg's Great Hackers:
"What do hackers want? Like all craftsmen, hackers like good tools. In fact, that's an understatement. Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools. They'll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure."
Only if you take a naive first-grader's ultra-literal reading of what was said.
>Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company's products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo's engineers.
No where does he say that all the other stuff is worth $0.
From pg's Great Hackers:
"What do hackers want? Like all craftsmen, hackers like good tools. In fact, that's an understatement. Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools. They'll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure."