Alvaro Zuniga wrote: >Something that I have to credit to Bill Gates is that he is a Master of >Business, legal or illegal or in which ever negative or positive way you wish >to put it. The proof is not only wealth but also the popularity of his >business and how he has managed to do what he does out in the open. > >The key word of Bill Gates interview is education. I believe this is one of >the main strategies of Microsoft as Bill Gates clearly expresses that fact. >Most of the decision makers of our generation studied computer science, >learned about or with computers at the time the PC, Dos and Windows were >emerging. This decision makers were not fortunate enough to have the >different choices we now enjoy; nevertheless, they control most of the key >positions needed to incorporate Linux to the Corporate setting. Education is >the pr oven means to a change. > >
Actually, I personally think that M$ is losing out in the realm of education. All of the younger "techies" that I talk to are using Linux, at least "on the side". There are fewer and fewer "kids" (I am not that old myself...) that I talk to that are either EE, CS, or any computer related degree seeking undergraduate students who still use windows as their preferred OS. There has been only one CS instructor at LSU that I have taken any classes from that was sold on windows. Of course this guy tried to tell me 1 1/2 years ago that there was no such thing as a 64 bit OS at that time. Uh... Excuse me? Solaris???? The guy was a M$ junkie. Of course, he works for Unisys. Anyway, the original point of this is that I think the younger generation is becoming more and more a concentration of Linux/UNIX users. In 1995 I was first introduced to Linux. I was 22 years old and a 14 year old kid introduced me to Slackware. I have been hooked ever since. The point is that he was 14 years old, writing his own code (supposedly he had a couple of kernel patches to his credit, of course he could have been pulling my leg), and running linux as his PRIMARY OS (even in those days). Everywhere I go I find more and more teenage to twenty-something year old people running Linux and hating microsoft. So, I think the tide is turning for old Billy Boy.... I have found this to be especially true in Houston since I have started hanging out there some weekends. I think over the next ten years there will be a gradual shift to *nix and away from windows. just seems the way it is going to me. Of course I have been wrong before.... > >Please be kind when you ~bash~ me! > > But that takes all of the fun out of it! Shannon >Alvaro Zuniga > > > > >On Monday 30 June 2003 09:44 am, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > >>http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-06-29-gates-linux_x.htm >> >>He is squirming nowadays.... >> >>Shannon >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
