Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:24:40 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Smashing Bill Gates necessary? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011029092440.00fa6e38@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20011029093947.A4241@keyslapper.org> References: <20011029040835.T2878-100000@big> <20011029040835.T2878-100000@big>
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This thread is very much like arguing religion and politics... there is never and end to such debates, and I ignored it until now... "...I wouldn't want to harm the guy, but I'd sure like to have seen MS broken up. You think it would hurt him? I sincerely doubt it...." I doubt if Bill ever dreamed he would become as big as he did, but only in America... But, just to bust him up without any real good reason is akin to the phrase.." I am warmed by the fires that burn others..." When a company becomes too big is in the eyes of the beholder and unlike other monopolies that force you to use them without other alternative, the software business is very fast-moving... things can be changed by that other fellow out there working on something really big in his garage... and ole Bill could become little again before he can dream of that too.... leave the market alone as long as you have a choice! We shouldn't just complain because some one became hugely successful... it inspires others to produce those new toys for us. Okay... I'm bracing for the next shot...!! (I knew I shouldn't have said anything!) At 09:39 AM 10.29.2001 -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >Ok, yes it is kinda mean. Bill has been thoroughly vilified in the >open/free software communities. But not entirely without reason, and >not entirely undeserved. > >Sure he has given more money to help educate kids in technology than >many of us will have made through our whole lives, but he's >essentially fighting an undeclared war on freedom of computing choice. > >Sure I admire his educational charity work. But I like to see a >little resistance to the 'you must do it my way' mentality. XBill is >satire, so it must be looked upon as such. No one meant that they >wanted Bill harmed, just to fan the flames of resistance a little. >Ok, a lot. > >So, like a couple other replies in this thread suggest, just rm it and >put it in your refuse file so you never have to see it again. > >I wouldn't want to harm the guy, but I'd sure like to have seen MS >broken up. You think it would hurt him? I sincerely doubt it. > >I started to run into a rant about opening MS code to the public as >open or free software, as rumors suggested when the initial court case >went against them, but realized this would be too far OT, and probably >start some kind of holy war on the list, so I decided to leave it at >that. > >XBill isn't the only bit of anti MS satire or propaganda in the Open >and Free SW communities, but I doubt that Gates needs to fear for his >well being. > >$0.02. > >L >On 10/29/01 04:40 AM, P. U. (Uli) Kruppa sat at the `puter and typed: >> Hi everybody! >>=20 >> Perhaps I am becoming a little bit moralistic these days? >> In the gnome-fifth-toe collection I found a little game >> called XBill. Its sense is to smash tiny pictures of Bill >> Gates and some blood will be splattered when you hit him. >>=20 >> Of course Bill Gates can pay enough lawyers to take care of >> this himself, of course I do not have to play this game, of >> course I do not like Microsofts monopolistic business >> strategies and of course smashing icons, burning >> straw-puppets, crosses or flags is not as bad as killing >> real persons, but still I do not really like the idea. >>=20 >> I think it would not be a great loss to take this game out >> of gnome-fifth-toe. >>=20 >>=20 >> Uli. >>=20 >>=20 >> ************************************ >> * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * >> * Germany * >> * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * >> ************************************ >>=20 >>=20 >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>=20 >>=20 > >--=20 >Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org >Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) >http://www.keyslapper.org =D4=BF=D4=AC > >Fishbowl, n.: > A glass-enclosed isolation cell where newly promoted managers are > kept for observation. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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