__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 24 December 2006 11:21 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Maverick ] on Sunday 24 December 2006 00:04 \__
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>> __/ [ Maverick ] on Saturday 23 December 2006 06:34 \__
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>>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>__/ [ Maverick ] on Friday 22 December 2006 23:58 \__
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>>>>>>>Aunty Diluvian wrote:
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>>>>>>>>On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:16:26 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>>>>>>>><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Linux Belongs To Microsoft!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>>>| The crux of the matter is: Microsoft not only feels but also
>>>>>>>>>| claims intellectual rights on open source. And the only languaget
>>>>>>>>>| hat Microsoft understands the best is not C++ but 'money'.
>>>>>>>>>`----
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>http://efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=15617&magid=11
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>This might be a godsend for Linux.
>>>>>>>>In the hands of a great software marketing firm like
>>>>>>>>Microsoft, Linux might achieve double-digit market share
>>>>>>>>much sooner than they would otherwise.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>You Linuxers should applaud Microsoft for their efforts
>>>>>>>>to further your agenda and help you realize your dreams
>>>>>>>>of world dominance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Yea Microsoft.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Linux must be Microsofts next operating system then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>A fast lane to Singularity? BSD/Linux with Wine and without GNU tools?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, I'm sure Ballmer will figure it out somehow.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> He's a businessman, not a technical guy like Gates and Allchin. All he
>>>> can do is shout "marketers, marketers, marketers"... or "advertisers,
>>>> advertisers, advertisers"... even "bloggers, bloggers, bloggers" (they
>>>> are currently buying people from the Open Source world as well, which is
>>>> scary) and "shills, astroturfers, Munchkins". I am quite serious about
>>>> this... as a businessman, Ballmer sees opportunity in the form of
>>>> marketing (assuming that best product does not always win, based on
>>>> history's lessons). He doesn't see technical merit as much of a
>>>> priority. Never have. All these scare tactic with the OEM's are
>>>> marketing pushed to (probably illegal) extremity. How could he thrive
>>>> within this government that turned a blind eye and force governments
>>>> overseas to comply in order to interoperate (using closed
>>>> formats/protocols).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeup. Ballmer has spent far too much time at personal seminars. :-))
>>
>> Surely the wrong ones. He never attended Anger Management 101.
>>
>
> Bill Gates is not a technical guy, though. He's a rich kid whose Dad
> was a successful corporate lawyer. This has set the tone for the whole
> of MS's existence.
He also knew which garbage can (or skip) to grab code from...
http://thebeez.vnunetblogs.com/the_beez_speaks/2006/09/hasta_la_vista_.html
'Poor Bill Gates. The world will remember him as the richest man in the world
and the founder of Microsoft, but he will never achieve the same statue as
his arch rivals Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (aka "the Woz").
The younger generation may not know the latter, but Steve Wozniak was the
technical wizard that put Apple on the map. He only needed six chips to
control a floppy disk, where others needed twenty. With the words: "It was
only two chips. I didn't know if people would use it." he added hi-res
graphics to the Apple ][. BTW, he also designed the interpreter Calvin.
Needless to say, this man gets the utmost respect from us nerds.
Unfortunately, Bill Gates is not a wizard. Even worse, he is a bad
programmer. When Martin Eller, a Microsoft programmer, found an error in the
flood fill routine of the MS-Basic interpreter, he exclaimed "Which moron
wrote this brainless sh*t?" only to find out it was Gates himself who wrote
the "brainless sh*t". I think it is safe to say that Bill Gates is hardly
the technical wizard he would so much like to be.'
Merry Christmas. I'll post as little as needed.
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