Gates is a piece of crap, but his death wouldn't solve anything. Microsoft is far too big, and Gates is too lacking in charisma, for the company to be crippled much by his loss. They'd still go on, and if anything, the public would probably be more sympathetic to them, since Joe Public has a tendency not to know any better anyway.
I wouldn't go so far as to delete Osirus's post, as that would be censorship, which I find exceedingly stupid anyway . . .
And as a side note, hell, even Mac OS X has a little inside Gates murder humor. Look what happens when you type his name at the command prompt:
quote:
[localhost:~] fuckmicro% bill gates
OK? kill gates?
Well, I found it cute, in any event.
[ December 13, 2001: Message edited by: The Webmaster ]