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http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/82s16/has_joel_...

  The context is important. First, it is in reply to this, which quotes Spolsky as:
    "This seemed to piss off a guy named Greg Whitten who headed up the App Architecture
    group. Now, Greg was something like Microsoft employee number 6. He had been around
    forever; nobody could quite point to anything he had done but apparently he had
    lunch with Bill Gates a lot and GW-BASIC was named after him."
  Second, the post to the mailing list itself is a forward of a private e-mail
  from Greg Whitten. I can't see if he said anywhere he was okay with making
  it public.

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