Betrayal
Worse than actually listening to creationists (I don't care how much they dislike it, they are in the same category as the flat-earth society)...is to hear your mentor consider going to work for Microsoft - and still consider it yourself.
All my professional life, I've come to tolerate Microsoft products and to absolutely hate the company. It has become one of my principals that I would never work for microsoft, same as I'd never go back to live to the states in the immediate future.
I'm a Mexican American who was born to love the culture of his forefathers, that of the aztecs, the mayan, the toltecs and all those descended from the great mother culture of America, the Olmecs. By extension I can also honor the Inca's and the rest of indigenous South America (for they were just as brutally raped by the Spaniards as we were).
Microsoft betrayed me when they declared on all out war on Linux and tried to fuck up the Unix industry with the SCO vs. Novell case. I don't hate Bill Gates, but I hate what his unrelenting sense of competition has done to the minds of Microsoft.
For a brief moment yesterday I contemplated going to microsoft to save up funding for my own company...but it was just too far out there. I believe myself to be of the old school of Game Design, that is, always do it your way.
I worked very hard to get where I am and I don't need security or good pay to get what I want - I don't have a fucking family that needs me to be someone. Instead I have a fucking conscience that needs me to be myself, above all others and all else.
I understand and can sympathize with my mentors financial situation (a new wife and a second kid on the way), but under this context alone, can I see the rationale behind working for Microsoft - it doesn't apply to me.
Long live variety, long live those who are different.
All my professional life, I've come to tolerate Microsoft products and to absolutely hate the company. It has become one of my principals that I would never work for microsoft, same as I'd never go back to live to the states in the immediate future.
I'm a Mexican American who was born to love the culture of his forefathers, that of the aztecs, the mayan, the toltecs and all those descended from the great mother culture of America, the Olmecs. By extension I can also honor the Inca's and the rest of indigenous South America (for they were just as brutally raped by the Spaniards as we were).
Microsoft betrayed me when they declared on all out war on Linux and tried to fuck up the Unix industry with the SCO vs. Novell case. I don't hate Bill Gates, but I hate what his unrelenting sense of competition has done to the minds of Microsoft.
For a brief moment yesterday I contemplated going to microsoft to save up funding for my own company...but it was just too far out there. I believe myself to be of the old school of Game Design, that is, always do it your way.
I worked very hard to get where I am and I don't need security or good pay to get what I want - I don't have a fucking family that needs me to be someone. Instead I have a fucking conscience that needs me to be myself, above all others and all else.
I understand and can sympathize with my mentors financial situation (a new wife and a second kid on the way), but under this context alone, can I see the rationale behind working for Microsoft - it doesn't apply to me.
Long live variety, long live those who are different.