seems like you hate him more than you hate sco .
Not at all. Never met him personally and unlikely to in the forseeable future. so nothing personal about it.
we must thank him for proliferating computers and software to the masses.
Rubbish taiwanse cloners and chip fabs did that.
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it is our job to take this vision in a more cleaner way
Are u joking what vision - robbing other's software, writing illegal contracts, being the big bully, writing software with more holes than a sieve. And that is not my concotion - it's recorded in various court judgements across the world.
... to make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts in learning...
All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' methods.
First of all very well-written JTD!
Well let me narrate an incident, a real-life incident when I visited Microsoft Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad. It was part of our college tour, and was made possible by one of the seniors who is working in M$. I had a nice debate regarding FOSS, M$, ...., which was mainly initiated by the M$ fellas who could not stop asking which one among us though Billy to evil, thought M$ was bad, etc... During the couse of this debate, suddenly when they were pushed to a corner, they came up with the question: Why would you ever use Linux? Why would you ever use anything other than Winblows?
Now what about this? Is this how employees of a company, an American company owned by a good American citizen, behave? What about the philosophies of democracy that Mr. Bush and his cronies are trying to push forward? The whole point is that M$ is not as likeable as you think. Think of a world without Winblows and you would get the logic.
The whole idea of Windows making computing easy does not hold. Yeah they have definitely made it a idiot-friendly thing. But that is dangerous in the same way that driving would be a dangerous thing if you made licenses optional. The plethora of viruses and worms that we find everywhere would have been lesser if it was not for that Winblows user who so happily clicks on every mail in the mailbox, and every .exe on the floppy.
Cheerio, Debarshi