Goodbye Bill Gates (Microsoft boss steps down)

[Kid_Eternity]

So what do people think of him getting into politics?

President Bill Gates?

 

[DotCommunist]

I imagine him as part of some shadowy senatorial oversight comitee , blithely authorising assasinations and political destabilisation of non democratic states. Like the bastard he is

 

[isitme]

President Bill Gates?

He's way too clever to be the President of the USA

 

[qoidjgf]

He's way too clever to be the President of the USA

agree.
the president of the usa is only a figure head.
he's probably better off working behind the scene.

 

[gorski]

I truly believe hes a genuinely good man, he actually comes across as a bit of a modern day robin hood with his redistribution of wealth toward causes that really do need support and funding, and encouraging others to do the same, i know its very trendy to knock the guy, but an enormous industry has grown up off the back of his efforts, its certainly kept me in work for the last 15 years.

Ahhh, yes, a genuinely good man constantly after money and power, ripping others off big time, never sharing those riches with the originators of ideas he cashed in on... Ahem... A hood alright!!!

Gates as a re-distributor of wealth? Well, when did he accept that his competitors have the right to a fair play/level playing field, to begin with?!? Fined so massively [and not sufficiently, apparently] by the EU, for instance, and before that by the US [if it only wasn't for that wanker Bush, even almost broken apart his company etc. etc.]

Compare him with, say, Soros and see just how much he did with what he has... And how long did it take him to start or do anything seriously meaningful and with an impact comparable to the wealth he's sitting on?!?

[Ridiculous!!! Jesus wept!]

As for him giving you a job and hence being deserving of such appraisal - I'd think again, if I were you, only this time a little bit more critically and not seeing the world through "mememe" eyes only...

Here's something equally "entertaining"...

now gay people are credıted wıth speedıng up cultural evolutıon, ıt just shows how thıngs can change......

Blimey...

 

[PacificOcean]

Ahhh, yes, a genuinely good man constantly after money and power, ripping others off big time, never sharing those riches with the originators of ideas he cashed in on... Ahem... A hood alright!!!

Gates as a re-distributor of wealth? Well, when did he accept that his competitors have the right to a fair play/level playing field, to begin with?!? Fined so massively [and not sufficiently, apparently] by the EU, for instance, and before that by the US [if it only wasn't for that wanker Bush, even almost broken apart his company etc. etc.]

He is giving his $40bn wealth to charity.

I think that is more important than playing fair with other mutli-billion pound compaines like Sun Microsystems or shitty browsers like Netscape.


I don't think we would have computers as we know them today without him.

Your average punter isn't going to bother with geeky stuff like Linux. He wants the ease of use of something like Windows.

 

[PacificOcean]

AS far as software companies go the stuff that Microsoft get up to isn't that bad. He deserves praise for keeping microsoft launching successful and sometimes very good products over a number of decades, not many software companies can keep their eye on the ball like that.

One thing he did get wrong was that he thought the Internet would never take off.

 

[fractionMan]

Bill gates is a shrewd and aggressive businessman not a nerd. He never invented anything but instead spent his time knocking competition out of the market after stealing their ideas. He stifled the IT industry for years and deserves all the stick he gets.

 

[gorski]

Indeed, fM!

But that's for critically minded people! See, if we're a tad gloomy, then we can say something like "as a species we might be doomed, since way too many of us are quite cool with not using their brains, being nice little conformists and just "going with the flow"... as it's much easier... and you get all the goodies like that..."

To my mind no one should have been allowed to get as far as he did, full stop! Where was the state, as the regulators/legislation, the inspectors, the anti-monopolist/trust/mergers bodies and so forth?!?

The new Linux developments are better and better and you can see a much better example [in relation to Gates] right there: the guy behind Ubuntu is giving a lot of his money to the Linux project "for ordinary folk", much before he made billions and for the right kinda project!!!!!!!!!! My hat down!!!!!!!

Sure, finally Gates did the right thing - and give credit where credit is due for that!!!] - but: did he give up the way to do it? Does he advocate, like Soros, that people like him should be stopped/prevented from "achieving" something like that? Is he spending more than he earns, I wonder? Soros has been doing it for quite some time. Has Gates changed his strategy, like Soros and went away from the manner in which he earned his money and started something "concrete" [a "conservative", "old style" production investment, for instance]. And so on.

No, the answer to all of those Q's, so I can't really call him an enlightened person yet - i.e. he still has a way to go to get to such a position. Systemic place for something like that to happen is still there, Gates hasn't stood up against that and he isn't advocating the right thing with the legislators and advising them, "from within", which steps to take to prevent such bullshit, to the detriment of all.

Ergo, he's still THE culprit in my eyes, as he still hasn't done everything he could and should have done. [And obviously not just my eyes...]