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Back in the early 1990s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third-largest software company, but, more importantly, it was a legitimate competitor of Microsoft. Philippe Kahn, the CEO at the time, was fond of motorcycles, saxophones, and brash statements at all-hands meetings: “We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
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Lopp, M. (2012). Hacking Is Important. In: Managing Humans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4315-1_27
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