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Ph Gibone wrote:
> About Bill Gates (not a friend of mine), I don't like to hate somebody so
> many people like to hate :
> Of course Windoze is not the best OS (is it one ?), of course DOS was even
> worst, but how many of us, 'happy povers' would have a computer today
> without these two dirty, spooky pieces of code.
> Don't answer me Mac would have done the trick because I would reply : why
> didn't he do it ? If the Mac would have been better, less expensive,
> clonable... nobody would speak about Bill Gates today !
>
> So maybe the greater threat to mankind are the people who build the fame of
> someone and then want to kill him only because he's famous !
>
Actually, for me it's very much because of his actual actions and the corporate
culture he has fostered. When top MS execs do things like telling Apple to
"knife the baby" and reporting to Bill that they will be at every chance be
"pissing on" the industry products they are publicly supporting...
When the cost of most every major PC software package in the world has been
coming down over the years, but the cost of the OS keeps going up...
When his company successfully lobbies to get high-tech/computer contractors
eleminated from getting to be paid overtime...
When a company reaps massive proffits, yet illegaly classifies employees as
"temps" to save on having to pay them benefits...
When a company tries to dictate which third party applications may and may not
be run on their OS...
Jobbs, too, may have been hard to work for. But there is a difference between
pushing hard to win the competition, and working hard to kill the competition.
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John VanSickle wrote:
>
> I'm working on my next IRTC animation (yes, it will have Rusty!), and
> I would like to know whose effigy you would prefer to see destroyed:
>
> 1. Bill Gates
> 2. Barney the Dinosaur
>
> Regards,
> John
No need to kill two dinosaurs, they both die out one way or the other.
Marc
--
Marc Schimmler
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As I have said, I'm not a Bill Gates' friend and I don't know how he treats
his employees (what you describe seems to be very common (unfortunately))
just consider :
If nobody buys it, it will no be sold !
Philippe
PS I never tried Linux, but if it is what it is said to be, I will probably
switch to Linux as soon as I can get my favorite Softwares under Linux (Pov
(done), Moray, a good L4G, a very good compiler like VC++ 5 (sorry, it comes
from bill's chest !))
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Ph Gibone wrote:
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> PS I never tried Linux, but if it is what it is said to be, I will probably
> switch to Linux as soon as I can get my favorite Softwares under Linux (Pov
> (done), Moray, a good L4G, a very good compiler like VC++ 5 (sorry, it comes
> from bill's chest !))
Once you're running Linux, VC++ is rather useless. Welcome to a whole
new set of API's. I, for one, am glad to see egcs merged back into gcc.
--
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povray org
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>Once you're running Linux, VC++ is rather useless. Welcome to a whole
>new set of API's.
Well let's say something like the Wizards of VC++
I, for one, am glad to see egcs merged back into gcc.
>
Sorry but I don't get the "egcs" and "gcc" acronyms
Philippe
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Any use of "Rusty" will be very unoriginal, and Bill Gates has nothing to
do with "Creatures." Of course, you'll be in the podium anyway..........
John VanSickle wrote:
> I'm working on my next IRTC animation (yes, it will have Rusty!), and
> I would like to know whose effigy you would prefer to see destroyed:
>
> 1. Bill Gates
> 2. Barney the Dinosaur
>
> Regards,
> John
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It's not one man or one dinosaur that will lead to the end of mankind.
It's advertisers, spammers, and those people who think up sweepstakes'!
-Mike
John VanSickle wrote:
> I'm working on my next IRTC animation (yes, it will have Rusty!), and
> I would like to know whose effigy you would prefer to see destroyed:
>
> 1. Bill Gates
> 2. Barney the Dinosaur
>
> Regards,
> John
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