I shared this story with an attorney friend who is also interested in computers. I thought you all might be interested in his response.
Quote: ====================================================== Gates should remember Friden, NCR, General Motors, XEROX, Hitler. When most people hate you, you seem to loose. Gates is very easy to hate. ====================================================== Will Lowe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] humorous interview with Bill Gates on Linux > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
