imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST

@molly0xfff IBM were paying coders by the line in the mid '80s, right around the time they released OS/2. And just look how well they're doing today in the personal computer and PC operating system market...

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@ajsadauskas @molly0xfff to be fair to IBM, OS/2 was way ahead of its time. It took over a decade before its best features finally made it to Windows.

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