DJA([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:45:58PM -0700: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > > >They don't care if they lose money or cause the technology in question > >to die out. Just as long as no one else gets big. > > That's pretty close. Microsoft was created in Bill Gate's image. His > underlying motive is not so much greed, but personal insecurity. Face > it, he has low self esteem. He doesn't really give a rat's ass about > acquiring wealth or fame.
Well.. I guess we'd have to know Mr. Gates a lot better to know which of the greed or insecurity was his major motivator. I'd rather remain ignorant in this area. It's likely that his motives changed from time to time depending on a variety of factors. The fact that insecurity and greed were major contributors is enough to satisfy my curiosity. And to tie it in with Andrew's point in a different message, not wanting to be manipulated by the plans of a greedy/insecure company was the main reason for my switching to Linux. I hated daily reboots, and buggy excel spreadsheets and fear of viruses. I hated even more the feeling that my "computing experience" was being controlled in some rather insidious ways. I ran straight to Slackware in 1996 or so to get my computing liberty. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
