On 17/06/06 15:23 +0530, jtd wrote:
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:38 pm, Harsh Busa wrote:
On 6/17/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
July 2008 favourite punching bag will resign from M$ as chief software architect. The orginal PR stated that he was resiginig as Chairman. But a clarification from billybaba says that he will remain chairman forever. Hopefully the rest of the garbage will remove itself too and there will be some real architecture in place of spahgetti.
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.
Actually, Compaq did it by reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and fighting a costly court case which allowed clones.
The outsourcing to Taiwan came much later.
The spread of Windows was basically propelled by Windows 95 being preloaded on a large number of cheap PCs (majorly anti-competitive actions there).
taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they would have been
Apple did that
Amiga, Apple.
with all nerds / geeks and self proclaimed gods of software sitting in labs ... so what if he didnot build everything on his own ... so what he wanted to earn a lot of money . ... a lot more than anyone could possibily think of ...
It isn't the money, it is about the amount of control exerted by MS and the way they went about obtaining their market which is a problem. Embrace, extend and extinguish. IBM in the 80s, MS in the 90s.
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.
Definitely more variety and better quality.
Devdas Bhagat