> Y'know, the windows bashing and gates bashing has left the arena of
> intelligent complaints and gone into habitual rudeness. We really wanna
> behave that way? I do see good things about windows. It has brought a lot
> more people into contact with each other, people who can't drive a computer
> themselves. It has opened computing up to the ordinary man and woman.
I wasn't really serious on this one, but ok, I'll get along.
IMHO it's DOS (yes, especially MS-DOS which used to be the best) and
Apple who should be praised for opening up computing.
Windows should be blamed for destroying the picture. I admit Apple's
and (especially) DOS machines need more knowledge than Win machines
for basic operation. But that lack of basic knowledge shows up twice
as hard if something goes wrong. People make a little mistake (eg
a typo or "clicko") and something happens they didn't expect.
They don't know how to handle or even recognize there errors
and just blame it on the computer. For most people computers and
Windows are the same. Thus they think all computers are only
good at crashing and trashing data. With the coming of Linux this
starts to change, but the image of computers most people have
is still very bad. This I blame MS-Windows for.
> Gates was raised common, poor maybe, though I'm not sure about that, and he
> used his talents, skills and wit to become wealthy and powerful. He
> continues to do that to stay wealthy and powerful and there are few men who
> wouldn't fall into that trap. "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts
> absolutely". When you are standing on the mountain, you don't see the
> people anymore, just their works. I don't respect what Gates does, but I
> admire how he did it!
I do note hate Bill Gates. Although his company did some rather
nasty thing in the last few years, I don't blame him personal for
this. As you do I admit he is a genius using his talents at bussiness
and marketing to become rich. If I had been in his position I probably
would have done the same (provided I was smart enough to make up his
moves). I admit he did some very good marketing, but I don't like it.
As I have to admit Hitler was very charismatic and good at PR, but I
still don't like his ways.
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