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Skriven 2006-06-03 16:53:00 av Robert E Starr JR (1994.babylon5)
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Carl wrote:
> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message 
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>> Carl wrote:
>>> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message 
>>> news:yI7gg.3677$n91.1519@fe09.lga...
>>>> Carl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, Gates has been too busy giving $29 Billion to charities and 
>>>>> trying to bring medicines to third world countries.  I can see where 
>>>>> you'd be looking for a 666  birthmark. :)
>>>> Bill Gates has, almost single-handedly, brought the entire software 
>>>> industry to a screeching halt. He has ruined the careers of thousands, 
>>>> and he has done it by repeated criminal acts, and by a completely lack 
>>>> of personal and business ethics.
>>> Nonsense.
>> Absolute truth. I've been in the business for over 40 years, and the last 
>> ten have been absolutely stagnant. IBM was ten times more innovative back 
>> in the days when A) they were an effective monopoly and B) they gave away 
>> all their software for free.
> 
> Stagnant?  Wake up!  There is the integration of the internet into many 
> things.  Information becoming available via RSS, web services, etc.  Music, 
> movies, podcasts, blogs...informatyion everywhere and requiring computers to 
> be able to sort, filter and present it all.  It's just the start.

None of which was achieved by Microsoft.

> What in the world makes you think it's Microsoft's job to do it all?  There 
> are a lot of companies doing very interesting things.  MS provides a common 
> platform.  If Linux were the standard I'd be just as happy (perhapsd 
> moreso...and I develop Windows software for a living)... but MS created a 
> platform in which there are common APIS and developers can write it once 
> rather than writing it multiple times for multiple platforms.

They created a /lousy/ platform and forced it down the world's throat by 
criminal means.

>> Bill Gates doesn't deserve any credit for the PC revolution; that was the 
>> work of hardware engineers and of programmers working for companies other 
>> than Microsoft.

> You are obviously ignoring the entire history of the PC.

...which Microsoft had nothing to do with, apart from creating "me-too" 
products and driving the real innovators out of business.

> ? Ever since he drove all his competitors out of
>> business, or to marginalization, and he found himself with no one left to 
>> rip off, Microsoft has been completely unable to maintain its facade of 
>> "innovation".
> 
> Whether MS innovates or not does not prevent anyone else from innovating.

Unfortunately, it prevents innovation from going anywhere, by making it 
impossible for innovative products to be used.

>> Advances in the World Wide Web, for example have been stopped dead by 
>> Internet Explorer, which, even after the new IE7 comes out, will still be 
>> supporting web technology only as of the late 90's.
> 
> Personally I use FireFox.  So do a growing number of others. Then there's 
> Opera, Safari, Netscape, etc.
> If you're trapped with IE, it's a trap of your own making.  If you want to 
> innovate, add to Firefox. The code is available.

I just want to be able to create websites that work, a /hideous/ job, 
because 90% of the public is using a browser that doesn't even have 
future plans to support vital standards that were released as far back 
as 1998.

>> The only thing Bill Gates deserves "credit" for is having been born a 
>> selfish, spoiled, multimillionaire brat.
> 
> It would be better if you knew the facts before condemning others.

I /do/ know the facts. He was a trust-fund baby, and he has used that 
money in order to build an empire of organized crime.

Not to mention that he donates $1,000,000 a year to an organization with 
the avowed purpose of overthrowing the Bill of Rights and installing a 
theocracy in America.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
             
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