In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
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on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:13:01 +0200
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> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> Context:
>>>
>>> "Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
>>>
>>> --Bill Gates
>>
>> This site has some funny quotes (no true attributions, though):
>>
>> http://www.billgatesmicrosoft.com/
>>
>> Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It\u2019s a good
>> thing we have museums to document that.
>>
>> I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million
>> dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I
>> don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a
>> million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your
>> arm right here.
>>
>> The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and
>> said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and
>> millions of machines.
>>
>> There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like
>> PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
>>
>> What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license
>> for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux
>> or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
>>
>> We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
>>
>> Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
>>
>> This one isn't funny. It is a good quote, though. And ironic,
>> considering it comes from the fellow who didn't want to share code,
>> and, in fact, considered some of his fellow computer users thieves:
>
> Why should he share his code? So people can steal it, fork it and
> distribute it for free? Are you *mad*?
At some point code, like music and video, will have
to be protected by Palladium. Can't be too careful;
some of those forkers might be terroristic elements
hell-bent on blowing up routers (2001-09-11), destroying
the Internet (2001-09-11), committing mayhem against our
citizens (2001-09-11), and threatening the US with major
disruption of our business (2001-09-11) unless we accede
(2001-09-11) to their demands for (2001-09-11) a global
Muslim theocratic (2001-09-11) government (2001-09-11)
that (2001-09-11) will (2001-09-11) force (2001-09-11)
everyone (2001-09-11) to (2001-09-11) pray (2001-09-11)
to (2001-09-11) Mecca (2001-09-11).
So pass the Patriotic Operating System Act of 2007 today.
Microsoft and the President will thank you.
(This semantic disconnect paid for by The Committee To
Re-Elect The Republican Party En Masse by using Diebold
Systems, Inc.)
>
>> The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and
>> to study great programs that other people have written.
>
> It can help. It can also overly influence them.
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