On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:20:18 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Talking about a virtual gold rush, Windows shill in this forum
> believe that by tapping on Gates' shoulder they'll crawl into
> his bed and enter his safe. Dedicating one's life to disrupting
> Linux forums, all for ego boost through ridicule (bully complex)...
"In the early days of computing, software was created by people
working from their home offices or even their basements. These
hobbyists developed for the love of it and not out of a hope of
turning a profit. But once the Windows platform became the mainstay of
the computing world, this mentality changed overnight. Sure, there was
already an industry in place for those who wished to make a career out
of software development"
So, before Microsoft you could only programme in you basments if you
didn't work for MS. This is such a distortion that it beggers belief.
Microsoft was *made* by the hobbiest market, the Altair, MITS and IBM
in that order, not the other way round. This is what Gates really
thought of the hobbyists developers:
"As the majority of hobbysts must be aware, most of you steal your
software", Bill Gates Feb 1976
http://www.blinkenlights.com/altair.shtml
http://8LN.org/$yeb
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2380&Itemid=449&limit=1&limitstart=1
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
"once DirectX came onto the scene, the world was stunned with superior
development options in contrast to the current console gaming systems
of that era"
They may have been stunned but not for the reasons given. You see a 3d
rendering system called OpenGL already existed. DirectX was a
duplication of the open standard OpenGL. Founding member MS quit the
consortium once its own closed DirectX was usable. So much for sharing
it about and every one geting rich.
Yet more of the mythology that before MS computing didn't exist as we
know it.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms970779.aspx
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