[Tfug] OT A word of thanks

[eric christian]

Jon schrieb:
> eric christian wrote:
>> Jon schrieb:
>>> eric christian wrote:
>>>> Jon schrieb:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> topics. We are all guilty from time-to-time of going OT, you just 
>>>>> happen to do it *every* time and it has an effect of making the 
>>>>> list a little edgy and sometimes chaotic. I think we all could do a 
>>>>> better job of staying on topic and we all need a little nudge from 
>>>>> list members when we get carried away, me included.
>>>>>
>>>> Not to hog the last word here, but the statement "I do it *every* 
>>>> time" needs attention. My posts on Gates, for example:
>>>>
>>>>> About tfug      English (USA)
>>>>>
>>>>> Topics covering all distros of free *nixes. Topics range from which 
>>>>> OS is better to why Bill Gates is the root of all evil ;)
>>>>
>>>> from TFUG website.
>>>> Eric
>>> There is a reason there is a ;) at the end of that. It's a joke and 
>>> meant to be light hearted. Your posts are not.
>>>
>> Not quite sure i understand. All posts must be light hearted? That 
>> Gates uses the money we pay for his eugenics surprised me and really 
>> should be known, even if it somehow isn't lighthearted.
>>
>> This week he did a CNN interview, saying how his foundation improves 
>> the  lives of the poor with his vaccines. Now, these poor are better 
>> off because instead of 6 children, only 2 children survive. He said that.
>> Eric
>>
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> No one cares about lies you found on the Internet. It's not related to 
> *nix at all. AT ALL. Seriously, at all. Out of respect for rest of the 
> list members I will not be responding to this thread anymore.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
I deal with truth, not lies. The CNNi Gates interview was TV (ASTRA 
SAT), of course. I myself have defended Gates in certain cases. In the 
80s i landed many a job using MS Word to write applications. My first 
home C compiler was MS (or, was it Borland? I know my C++ was Borland). 
MS ASM (calls from C), MASM, Pascal etc were also running on my PC-AT. I 
came to Unix also in the 80s on DG Eclipse maschines. So, i had no MS 
grudge. I think i have even stood up for MS *on this list*! Remember 
also, MS DOS, which won out over CP/M etc, was copied from Unix, that#s 
why we have backslash etc, because Bell Labs would have taken them to 
court! Backslash is such a hassle on non-US keyboards...

To properly evaluate Gates, it is not enough to understand how he was 
indoctrinated by his father (as he himself describes in the Moyers 
interview). One must apply the Peter Principle: promotion to the level 
of incompetance. I just described (above) the 80s Gates: good 
programming/office tools at home (remember the IBM 370 tools? punch 
cards? The operators giving you your print outs? DEC Ken Olsen saying 
"Unix is like a Russian truck"). Early 90s, tho, i was then sitting at 
IBM work stations running Unix. I remember vividly Gates saying the 
internet wasn't part of his, MS,  IT stategy. He'd lost it. In this 
weeks CNNi interview he was asked about "the future of IT". His (only) 
answer was "your home rooms will have computer screens as wallpaper" so 
that "when granma comes, you can change the 'wall paper'". This is 
childish. The Peter Principle, for example, a good local super market 
manager is promoted to regional district manager where he has no 
competance, can be applyied to Gates ie 80s Gates promoted to CEO of an 
international corporation. No wunder, that he's been switched to his 
foundation now.

cul
Eric

"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population 
can be kept from increasing. War has hitherto been disappointing in this 
respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. There 
are three ways of securing a society whose population is stable: birth 
control, infanticide or really destructive wars which creates general 
misery except for the powerful minority. These considerations prove that 
a scientific world society cannot be stable unless there is a world 
government with a monopoly of armed force."
-- Bertand Russell (Russell, one 13 Illuminati Bloodlines)