Naxxramas

[Kevin]

Yup.  Money + brilliant people != excellent software.  See Microsoft.
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I so have to quote this for truth.

I even know people that work for Microsoft and they are amazingly brilliant and amazingly good programmers too. Microsoft is not shy with the money for many of their people either, they throw a lot of money at training and education, and it's very good training and education as well. They do a lot of things amazingly well from the business side of things (they also do some very underhanded things too but eh).

But the results of their products are highly visible. They make a product that is "solid enough" and that isn't by intention, that is by the nature of the beast. Perfection in software can not be achieved simply from money and great programmers. If it could there would be better than what we have out there already.