RE: Why you want to work for Microsoft (research)

Thomas Reardon (thomasre@microsoft.com)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:58:23 -0700


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From: Lloyd Wood [mailto:L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk]

wondering if the Microsoft policy is simply to hire every functional
mind on the planet to create a monopoly of thought.

TR> no, we already have that. Now we are merely backfilling to create the
*appearance* of a monopoly of thought. All candidates are chosen primarily
for the grapevine value that attends their transition into the Borg.