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Microsoft seems to suffer from the good old "not invented here" syndrome, not only when it comes to external code.
微软似乎患上了流传多年的“不是自家发明(Not invented here)”综合症,而且排斥的对象不仅仅是来自微软外部的代码。
The worst, fatal flaw in the leadership of companies is the 'not invented here' mentality: 'If it's not my idea, I don't want to hear it.'
公司领导层最糟糕的,也是最致命的弱点,就是‘非我发明’的心态:‘如果不是我的主意,那就别讲给我听。’
"Perhaps," retorted the Englishman. "But the language was invented here."
“也许是,”英国人反驳说:“但这种语言是在这个国家发明的。”
They wouldn't have said that because it doesn't sound we want to think that we invented this here but it actually was a new invention in a way because the United States has a different philosophy which the United States has been committed since its beginning to federalism.
他们不会说,因为它听起来不像,这里我们希望大家把它想成我们自己的发明,但是事实上,它确实是一个新的发明,因为美国有一个不同的哲学,这个哲学是,美国力图从一开始就,使自己成为联邦制度国家。
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