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Re:Hello, GitHub by glenstein on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:04PM (#17234134)
>What one CEO does, another can undo.

I completely agree with that as a general principle, and I don't disagree with anything you've said outside of this quote. But are you suggesting that Nadella is going to leave Microsoft anytime soon?

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Re:Hello, GitHub by wpietri on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @01:17AM (#17235166)
No, but he's not immortal. He could get hit by a bus tomorrow. The median CEO in the Fortune 500 lasts only 5 years or so, and he's already in year 4.
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Re:Hello, GitHub by kthejoker2 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:38AM (#17236419)
Probably want to adjust that metric for stock price ...
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Re:Hello, GitHub by wpietri on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:03PM (#17241503)
Buses are not big respecters of stock price, and what goes up can come down. Microsoft's numbers could get squishy for a number of reasons unrelated to open source efforts, and a revenue dip could either mean a new CEO or some quick cuts to things that aren't producing a lot of short-term profit.
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