> Getting back to my point, I don't think he is contributing anything to the > society, rather, it is an investment which he will harvest in the near future. > And frankly speaking, I feel truly sorry for the teachers and the students who > will receive the training. As for money, I wish they could use it for teaching > / learning Open Source technoloigies and enhance their understanding of ICT. >
I agree with the point regarding investment and harvest. But why you feel sorry for those teachers and students? Isn't it better than nothing. There might have so many students who will never have chance to learn using a computer if microsoft didn't doante this money. Wouldn't this be a start of his long successful journey. Think about this, how many of us did start using computer with Non-Microsoft OS? Aren't we fan of open soure now, many of us open source contributor too. I always beleive in easy and smooth start. I think windows is good at it. Thanks, Mohammad Khan > Quoting Naushad UzZaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dear Brother Alok, > > > > Nice to see your reply. As I mentioned earlier, I am not a big fan of > > Bill Gates:) but I don't want to judge any person with a particular > > point of view or for his particular attitude or deed. There are many > > reasons to hate Bill Gates! But before hating him you should also > > think Bill Gates is the richest person now because there are millions > > of windows users. We had the choice but we chose Windows! (e.g. people > > chose IE! Did Bill Gates forced us to do so? We switched to IE by our > > own. Now we are migrating to Firefox, because we liked firefox. As > > simple as that..) I hope people will migrate to other OS soon too. > > > > However, I am not claiming that Bill Gates is the greatest person:) To > > me Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds are better human being (from a > > Computer Scientist's point of view). But I also think that we should > > acknowledge Bill Gates's (how do people write Bill Gates's something!) > > this contribution to the society. > > > > Thank you. Best Regards, NZ > > > > > > On 12/7/05, Ahmed Sirajee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Time out!!! > > > > > > What I wanted to mean was fair competition. > > > Without competition there is no existance of a market. > > > > > > Although a fair competition doesn't exist for real. > > > That doesn't nullify the idea of fair play. > > > Does it? > > > > > > Netscape was just an example. > > > And you are right in your point nothing is free. > > > > > > > > > > > > ??? ???? > > > > > > alok > > > > > > > > > On 12/7/05, beeplove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > while saying, 'Netscape died just because of making IE free with 98' > > > > > > > > also consider the following: > > > > > > > > 1. We computer users were dumb enough to pick right browser. > > > > 2. If I remember correctly, Netscape was also free. > > > > 3. In business, quality is not the only thing. Whether a product will > > > > servive in the market depends on many thing, quality is one of them. > > > > 4. During the time of Tomas Alfa Edison, he was one who oppose the > > > > efficient use of AC. But after time, we know how efficient is AC. Can > > > > netscape proof it by time. > > > > > > > > > > > > Finally, I would say, Do we have anything in the world which is really > > > > free? Think about it again before answer. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mohammad > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Ahmed Sirajee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Naushad... > > > > > > > > > > You are godamn right, the article is fantastic. > > > > > Just to wash up some egg shelled brains. > > > > > > > > > > What is the point? > > > > > Is The Daily Star just wanted to prove him as Data Bill Mohsin? > > > > Don't you > > > > > think Netscape died just because of making IE free with '98? > > > > > > > > > > Guilty feeling can drive ppl. to donate profusely, to wash off the > > > > sins they > > > > > made? > > > > > > > > > > What was in that article was a collection of quotable quotes from The > > > > > Readers' Digest. That noone reads anymore. > > > > > > > > > > Not meant to offend you, pls. understand that. > > > > > > > > > > I hope you would. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > alok > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Ahmed Arif Sirajee > > > 880172961331 > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > YAHOO! 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