Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: Linux.com Editor Joe Barr is dead

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

____/ Linonut on Monday 14 July 2008 11:50 : \____

> * Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
> 
>> BTW, I liked your "Good Riddance Bill Gates article":
>>
>> http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2008/07/good-riddance-bill-gates.html
> 
>    The young people nowadays whom watch the clip on YouTube seem
>    confused... and don't understand "why" someoone would even think
>    about throwing a pie to the face of this "hero" of theirs,
>    responsible for their "stable, lovely" Windows OS. This is the
>    generation which has grown on Windows XP and think Windows has been
>    stable all the time and they can't conceive or imagine that the
>    company did something abusive and broke the law in the process to
>    obtain its dominant marketplace position. They should know the truth
>    about BillG's firm and its recurring abusive, restrictive behaviour.
> 
> For the COLA record.

"But those who know me know that I'm not very serious or "politically correct".
So here's my farewell message to "Bill #2" ... the only moment where I smiled
after seeing Gates on TV!"

You can take a criminal and put him in a sweater. But it's still just a
criminal in a sweater.

"Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone
can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the
US Department of Defense."

                                        --Richard Stallman

Time to watch Gates carefully because he's already persua^H^Hbribing officials.
It was the UN 2 weeks ago, just days after his 'retirement'.

More on Gates (from colleagues):

Microsoft Memories

,----[ Quote ]
| At some point in your presentation billg will say "that's the dumbest
| fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft."  He looks like
| he means it.  However, since you knew he was going to say this, you
| can't really let it faze you.  Moreover, you can't afford to look
| fazed; remember: he's a bully.
`----

http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/05/microsoft_memor.html


,----[ Quote ]
| My father, in his travels, has met Bill Gates. I don't think I'd be
| creating a problem for him now (as he recently retired) by saying that he
| was unimpressed. Apparently Gates was rude, he was distracted, and when
| he sat, he rocked back and forth in his chair, an action which reminded
| my Dad of people with dementia.
`----

http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=12


,----[ Quote ]
| In my BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there,
| along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came
| along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an
| accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the
| f***-count, the better.
|
| [...]
|
| Four," announced the f*** counter, and everyone said, "wow, that's the
| lowest I can remember. Bill is getting mellow in his old age." He was,
| you know, 36.
|
| Later I had it explained to me. "Bill doesn't really want to review
| your spec, he just wants to make sure you've got it under control. His
| standard M.O. is to ask harder and harder questions until you admit that
| you don't know, and then he can yell at you for being unprepared. Nobody
| was really sure what happens if you answer the hardest question he can
| come up with because it's never happened before."
`----

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html


- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz      |    "Far away from home, robots build people"
http://Schestowitz.com  |    RHAT Linux     |     PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
 15:05:01 up  4:32,  1 user,  load average: 0.80, 1.89, 2.49
      http://iuron.com - Open Source knowledge engine project
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkh7bKQACgkQU4xAY3RXLo7u9QCfWRRHjVHgCoxA/qtH9Y4fjzYO
7FIAoJLSDFXPw1mw768DzoOFuXeHVXsA
=eM7y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index