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bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« on: 15 June 2006, 23:15 »
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #1 on: 15 June 2006, 23:54 »
Unfortunately, Microsoft is more than just one man.  It's more like a concept.  A very evil concept.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #2 on: 16 June 2006, 00:39 »
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Unfortunately, Microsoft is more than just one man.  It's more like a concept.  A very evil concept.

 Does the whole reporting of the event in that article make Bill Gates sound like Arvin Sloane to anyone else, or have I just been watching too many Alias repeats again?  I can kinda see him covertly endorsing contamination of the world's water supplies under the pretext of "purification" so a false Apocalypse can be created with an arcane piece of technology.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #3 on: 16 June 2006, 10:35 »
The article actually headed with "Gates to leave MS", but there's no such thing.

He'll still have lots of power as a chairman.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #4 on: 16 June 2006, 14:37 »
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The article actually headed with "Gates to leave MS", but there's no such thing.

He'll still have lots of power as a chairman.


this is why i carefully chose the topic name, instead of saying gates is leaving MS.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #5 on: 16 June 2006, 23:45 »
I love the comments on that site:

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...I have always admired Bill Gates himself to a certain degree...
...I agree. I admire Bill Gates, because he has given away over 1/3 of all the money he has ever made...
...I think Gates did a fine job with his too, I wonder if microsoft will be any different without him... Bill rocks...

Ahhhhh ... people ... so easily fooled and manipulated ... no wonder it's so easy to get filthy rich with so little effort, the only trick is to stay with the facade to the very end ... as philosophers say it:

Make people think you are good while doing as you wish ... the bad :D

Appear to be doing good things while doing the opposite.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #6 on: 17 June 2006, 01:26 »
I admire Bill Gates.  He's among the best businessmen in history.

What happens because of him is a different matter entirely. ;)
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #7 on: 17 June 2006, 01:37 »
I admire Bill Gates in the same way I admire Hitler.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #8 on: 17 June 2006, 02:07 »
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I admire Bill Gates.  He's among the best businessmen in history.

What happens because of him is a different matter entirely. ;)

I cannot agree with you here at all.  I believe that all the problems we accuse Microsoft of, including virus propagation, security holes, cross-platform incompatibility, and general instability, were part of his business plan from the beginning.

I can certainly agree that he holds the record for most money ever made, and perhaps even a record for the most convoluted and contradictory business plan.  But the web of lies which Microsoft uses to dupe the customer into begging for more anti-customer punishment can hardly be called good business.

Recap - ridiculous monetary success based on lies != good businessman
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #9 on: 17 June 2006, 02:18 »
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Recap - ridiculous monetary success based on lies != good businessman

Except: good business =! good for the customer (necessarily).  If you've got the general public begging you for your shitty product (see: stock footage of Bill autographing Windows 98 retail boxes), I'd say you've conquered the idea of business as far as it can go.  He may not be an ethical businessman, but that's why ethics is given its own course in college. ;)
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #10 on: 17 June 2006, 02:22 »
Good can mean ethical too though.

As a businessman, he is an excellent performer.
But he's a bad person.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #11 on: 17 June 2006, 03:04 »
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Good can mean ethical too though.

As a businessman, he is an excellent performer.
But he's a bad person.

Well put :thumbup:
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #12 on: 17 June 2006, 05:26 »
I have to agree that Mr Gates has been very successful as a 'business' man. He converted the entire industry to his product.

But I don't like the guy, and don't respect his views on the industry. I think hes a pretty average software engineer, perhaps due to putting business first. Which in turn may have been the reason he was so successful.
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #13 on: 17 June 2006, 08:54 »
I wonder why didn't that chair throwing guy replaced him ?



Gates := evil > Me likes evil people :)
but seriously i hate that fucker !
because he uses that facade !
like: "I'ma good person... no seriously"
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Re: bill gates to step down as chief soft. architect
« Reply #14 on: 17 June 2006, 09:16 »
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Me likes evil people :)

You like evil people?  Think I can get a position in your government? :D
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