__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 09 February 2007 18:52 \__
> "A glimse, to inspire your confidence in senior management, about how we
> develop stratagy" [bill rolls vodeo of BillG and SteveB in a VW Golf -
> take-off on the VW commercial - with the "da, da, da" sound track.
>
> Bill plays with a little doll, Steve and Bill make strange hand motions,
> they find a Sun machine in a garbage pile at the curb side, load it into
> their car, later smells, they dump it.]
>
> http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/6000/PX06262.pdf
Didn't Bill take pride in the fact that he collected other people's code from
the garbage at the back of some universities or businesses? On another
occasion (captured on video that I watched recently), Bill Gates said that
the Apple Mac was the best computer. It's well known that Gates worked with
a Mac in the room as he copied it (Linus and Sun manuals is another story).
Related:
NT influenced by Unix
,----[ Quote ]
| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html
The Redmond Copying Machine?
,----[ Quote ]
| My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
| "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
| to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
| surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
| bickering, which will proably never end.
|
| [...]
|
| Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
| he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
| agreed not to publish his name.
|
| [...]
|
| "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
| application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
| iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
|
| "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
| Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
| grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
| iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
|
| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
`----
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
,----[ Quote ]
| Allchin: "I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do
| what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage
| system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this
| problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we
| need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to
| heart. Jim"
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/allchins_buy_a_mac_email_exposed.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Software Notebook: Fun reading in Microsoft's Iowa lawsuit
,----[ Quote ]
| "I'd be glad to help tilt lotus into the death spiral," Silverberg
| wrote in October 1991. "I could do it friday afternoon but not Saturday.
| I could do it pretty much any time the (following) week."
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300590_software22.html
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