From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 17 23:45:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04939 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04916 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:45:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA35155; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:44:47 -0800 (PST) To: Greg Lehey cc: Jonas Luster , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What Bill Gates really thinks In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:43:25 +1030." <19990118124325.U55525@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:44:47 -0800 Message-ID: <35151.916645487@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > How many of us do understand german? > > Enough to make it worthwhile. Genau. In any case, I read the original and the english translation and actually have to say that Bill Gates doesn't sound like the anti-christ here, he sounds like a businessman. Us hacker types get very offended by bugs and consider robust software to be more attractive than whiz-bang software with lots of new features, but Microsoft isn't marketing to us hacker types. It's marketing to 50 million sheep and sheep like bright green grass. If anything, I'd say Mr. Gates is no more or less than a realist. Just as with government, the majority generally gets the kind of software it deserves. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message