Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:38:52 01/13/99
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Hi Don again -and Bob: This is a very complicated issue where at each turn you can go astray. Too many aspects to consider. By example: each time you give as example of how non-genial is the work of MS in spite of the talented people there, you forget to mention that when they were developping an OS like Windows they were not trying to create the very best peice of software, but the most versatile and easy to use for the average computer user. They were constrained to do, if I can say it, a mediocre product. I am a writter and I believe -in my country people believe- I am a good one, BUT each time I write my pages for magazines and newspapers I must recall -or the chief recall it to me- the kind of public I am writting for and so I must purposely simplify in a great degree my reasonnings, my sintaxis, my wording, etc. So, in this case my good job is not to doo a too much literary good job. But if MS is, because of a Gates desire to do, try to do the best or one of the best chess software, they are going to do it. How? Unuseful to discuss if they are going to hire two, three or a dozen chess genuses and 100 talented developpers: to stablish the exact recipe is not the discussion here. The point is to accept that if they want they will get the best recipe without limits IF that recipe is with a great effort. Finally, Don, the fact that in facts a proyect even in the greatest organization at end tends to be the result of the idea of one or two guys has nothing to do with this issue: what is esential is that these two guys were putted toguether to think about it and once they had that great idea all the resoruces of the organization were at his service. Thta's is what just a bunch of is9olated guys cannot do so well. Fernando
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