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by **Joseph W. Vigne** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 20:44:42

>>I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
>>Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
>>technoledgy for the sake of profit.

> You mean he makes software that millions of people actually use,
>and gets paid for it?

No, he makes software that millions of people *don't* use, but are forced to
buy with their systems anyway. (When I bought my machine, it came with
DOS/Windows. I don't want/use DOS/Windows, but I couldn't get a discount
for not buying a license for DOS/Windows.)
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by **Rasputin the Gre** » Wed, 08 Mar 1995 04:57:05

: >> I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
: >> geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing

I think it was Steve Wozniac who was the real geek behind Apple. :)

by **L S** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 09:19:35

I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing
world. It will be cool also if someone could make a POSIX Real Time OS
for free.

BTW, I am looking for a newsgroup which discusses the various POSIX Real
Time implementations. Could anyone please give me a pointer?

Thanks very much.

L S Ng

by **Benjamin I. Willia** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 09:26:07

Quote:> I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
> geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing

I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
technoledgy for the sake of profit.

Cordially,
Ben.

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by **Greg McGa** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 11:20:33

Quote:> BTW, I am looking for a newsgroup which discusses the various POSIX Real
> Time implementations. Could anyone please give me a pointer?

comp.realtime

by **S. Joel Ka** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 17:00:20

>> I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
>> geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing
>I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
>Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
>technoledgy for the sake of profit.

You mean he makes software that millions of people actually use,
and gets paid for it?

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by **Christopher B. Brow** » Tue, 07 Mar 1995 10:36:26

>> I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
>> geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing

>I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
>Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
>technoledgy for the sake of profit.

Jobs is also an "evil" profit-taker, which suggests that profits can't
be the sole problem. Even geeks have to make a living :-).

More importantly, Bill Gates cannot be considered a "true geek" because
his last code was written in the mid-80s.

I was a few feet away from him at a talk when he indicated that the
last thing he actually coded was the Tandy 100/102's operating system.
(Which actually wasn't bad overall. Microsoft did quite a good job
with 8 bit processors. It's been with 16-bit and higher that the
problems have occurred.)

So don't worry about whether it's "true" multitasking...

Don't worry about whether it's "true" color...

Consider: Is your computing hero a "true" geek?
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by **Mike Shav** » Sun, 12 Mar 1995 01:31:32

*> >I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
*> >Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
*> >technoledgy for the sake of profit.

*> Hey, you give me billions and billions of dollars, and I'll fall too..
*> Any day.

*> Linus

Feet of clay!
FEET OF CLAY!
=)

Mike

by **Ken Edwar** » Sun, 12 Mar 1995 05:32:32

>Hey, you give me billions and billions of dollars, and I'll fall too..
>Any day.
> Linus

Linus isn't cheap .. but he can be bought!
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by **Wim ten Ha** » Sun, 12 Mar 1995 04:43:57

Quote:>>> I think Linus Torvalds, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are the three coolests
>>> geek in the world. So we all know what they have done to the computing
>>I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
>>Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
>>technoledgy for the sake of profit.
>Hey, you give me billions and billions of dollars, and I'll fall too..
>Any day.

:-)

my $ 0.02
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by **Jiann-Ming** » Mon, 13 Mar 1995 07:02:30

Quote:
>I think it is a big mistake to put Bill Gates of the same level as
>Linus Torvalds. Bill Gates is a fallen geek, simply because he compromises
>technoledgy for the sake of profit.

No, Bill Gates is a business smart geek. He knows what people want, and
delivers. True, what he's giving us sucks, but most people don't care.
Bill Gates is not in the same boat as Linus. Gates has to make money, that's
his life. Linus is still a student, so it doesn't make that much difference.
Since Linux is free, the developers are able to do new innovative things with
it, and the users are willing to live with the occasional bugs.
For the general public, they would rather have something that doesn't change
much with lots of bugs. Can you imagine 100 different revisions of DOS
within a one year period? I mean, it's bad enough with the bugs in it.
People will not buy it. They'll take one version with bugs and live with
it.

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by **Jiann-Ming** » Mon, 13 Mar 1995 07:10:58

>Hey, you give me billions and billions of dollars, and I'll fall too..
>Any day.

Technically, Bill Gates doesn't have that much money. All his worth is
in Microsoft in stocks. So, depending on how his stock is doing, that's
how much money he has, or that's how much he's worth. Certainly, he's
got more money than the average Linux user, but from what I understand,
most of his worth is in MS stocks. So, if MS stock drops big time, well. . .
some can only dream. ;)

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by **Tim Smi** » Sat, 18 Mar 1995 14:08:14

>Technically, Bill Gates doesn't have that much money. All his worth is
>in Microsoft in stocks. So, depending on how his stock is doing, that's

Over the years, he's sold about a billion dollars worth of Microsoft
stock.

--Tim Smith

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