I have spent an entire career in Silicon Valley, and I have held a lot of different positions and worked with many executive teams. It reminds me of when I worked at NeXT, and told someone that we were using the Leffler library in NeXTStep. He insisted that we weren't, since a company like NeXT and someone like Steve Jobs would never allow such a thing - Steve wouldn't allow a public library inside our product. He just couldn't believe it was true - and I had no proof to offer.
I guess old-timers like me just need to be quiet and let you learn about these things over your 40 years in the business - I hope those lessons don't come too late for you.
No problem with old timers, there are plenty of those here. But their stories check out and if they accuse someone it is as a rule backed up by some evidence. See the thread about Jerry Pournelle recently and some of the people commenting in it. But if you start making stuff up or making baseless accusations then you are devaluing your experiences. And the experiences you do have a probably far more interesting than the things that you throw out there to make it all look better than it was. To me it makes no sense.
On another note, chances are that you'll run into people here that already know you from other places on the net or that know who you are in real life and who know for a fact that the things you write aren't the whole story. IT back then was a very small world and a lot of those old timers are now HN'ers, just like yourself.
I have spent an entire career in Silicon Valley, and I have held a lot of different positions and worked with many executive teams. It reminds me of when I worked at NeXT, and told someone that we were using the Leffler library in NeXTStep. He insisted that we weren't, since a company like NeXT and someone like Steve Jobs would never allow such a thing - Steve wouldn't allow a public library inside our product. He just couldn't believe it was true - and I had no proof to offer.
I guess old-timers like me just need to be quiet and let you learn about these things over your 40 years in the business - I hope those lessons don't come too late for you.