>
> This just in, form the files of "the astoundingly hard to believe":
>
> According to MS, they have "misplaced" parts of the source code to DOS
> and Win95 that the courts want them to turn over to Caldera in the case
> that involves investigating whether MS rigged Windows to crash when
> running on DrDOS. This apparently includes the entire QDOS product.
I get the feeling that until the DOJ offers unkle billy free room and
board, he will not get the gist of what is going on, (sigh,) if ever.
While I am tempted to believe He sees it all as a game, with no blood and
guts consequences; I think it is more that he sees humanity as a bunch of
thieves who deserve to be cheated in turn. That is because early hobbyists
did rip off his basic, mostly because he charged a then outlandish $500 a
copy. It did not help that before that, he worked finding and relocating
mis-shelved books in his high school library, giving him a sense that
normal folks are untrustworthy and too stupid to do the right thing.
(Sure, I know most folks are stupid. But so am I. It is only when
we work WITH different kinds of people, that we see our own stupidities,
and help each other around those gaping holes all of us have. Good teams
are NOT made of similar people!!!)
Compounding his sense of unfairness, I suspect, is the little known
bit about his mother having been on the board of directors at IBM when he
went to peddle his language products. I rather suspect that the visit to
Digital Research may well have been more an effort to seem fair, than to
be fair. Hence furthering his sense that he must hold on to everything, or
lose it all; because life is not fair.
The world is not fair, not a clear deterministic place; we gain more
by respecting others, not because it gains us more, but because it
minimizes our losses. We help others not to help others, but to help our
memories of ourselves, reassuring ourselves that we can help ourselves,
and that others will be available to help us if we may be momentarily
unable to.
I think that post traumatic stress seems related to the inability to
find that image of the self in others, and help others so as to relieve
the uniqueness of that experience as victim. Some go overboard trying to
help others afterwards, seeking that sense of balance.
I suspect that for either history, or pre-occupation, unkle billy has
not addressed the sense of connectedness to humanity within himself. And
we are all both the better, and the worse for it, as genius and
disfunctionality walk side by side.
I am glad I am not in his uncomfortable shoes; but who's shoes are
truly comfortable? And if they are, how few feel the contrast to
appreciate it?
I think unkle billy needs some contrast in his life to add depth to
his character. Just what would give him that, I don't know. But till
then, I expect unkle billy and his cronies will continue their charades.
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