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Re:Hacking is Important by narag on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @04:54PM (#3700388)
Borland's hacker ethos is what greatly diminished the company. The company indulged a well-known programmer tendency to bulldoze and rewrite code.

The company, as in management, took wrong decissions. But the blame still manages to fall on poor programmers :-)

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Re:Hacking is Important by mapgrep on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @05:09PM (#3700449)
I actually blamed the "hacker ethos," not the rank and file programmers, but the CEO of Borland was very much a coder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn

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Re:Hacking is Important by narag on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @07:16AM (#3702649)
I don't think so. The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway.

I'd say he was a hacker, in the broad sense of the word, but not a programmer. That would be Anders. A comparison with Jobs and Wozniak comes to mind.

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Re:Hacking is Important by mapgrep on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:49PM (#3704009)
> The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway

"As a student, Kahn developed software for the MICRAL, the earliest non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor."

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