Bill Says:

"Compensation plans of Microsoft product engineers, such as raises and bonuses, will also be tied to how secure their products are." -Associated Press article on Gates memo, 15 January 2002.

You can see he hasn't written software in over two decades. If he had, he'd know to tie it to the product marketing and managers compensation, not the engineers. Think about it; when was the last time you saw a developer stand up and yell, "It's good enough already, we need to ship this NOW!!!":)

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