On 17/06/06 15:23 +0530, jtd wrote: > On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:38 pm, Harsh Busa wrote: > > On 6/17/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > July 2008 favourite punching bag will resign from M$ as chief > > > software architect. The orginal PR stated that he was resiginig > > > as Chairman. But a clarification from billybaba says that he will > > > remain chairman forever. Hopefully the rest of the garbage will > > > remove itself too and there will be some real architecture in > > > place of spahgetti. > > > > seems like you hate him more than you hate sco . > > Not at all. Never met him personally and unlikely to in the forseeable > future. so nothing personal about it. > > > we must thank him for proliferating computers and software to the > > masses. > > Rubbish taiwanse cloners and chip fabs did that.
Actually, Compaq did it by reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and fighting a costly court case which allowed clones. The outsourcing to Taiwan came much later. The spread of Windows was basically propelled by Windows 95 being preloaded on a large number of cheap PCs (majorly anti-competitive actions there). > > > taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they > > would have been > > Apple did that > Amiga, Apple. > > with all nerds / geeks and self proclaimed gods of software > > sitting in labs ... so what if he didnot build everything on his > > own ... so what he wanted to earn a lot of money . ... a lot more > > than anyone could possibily think of ... > It isn't the money, it is about the amount of control exerted by MS and the way they went about obtaining their market which is a problem. Embrace, extend and extinguish. IBM in the 80s, MS in the 90s. > > it is our job to take this vision in a more cleaner way > Are u joking what vision - robbing other's software, writing illegal > contracts, being the big bully, writing software with more holes than > a sieve. And that is not my concotion - it's recorded in various > court judgements across the world. > > > ... to > > make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif > > e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an > > making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts > > in learning... > > All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had > it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' > methods. > Definitely more variety and better quality. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
