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Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood | |
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| Time: 00:58 EST/05:58 GMT | News Source: ZDNet UK | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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The UK Unix users' group is unhappy about Bill Gates receiving an honorary knighthood, saying that Microsoft's licence fees negate any contribution the company's chairman has made The UK Unix User Group is up in arms at the prospect of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receiving an honorary knighthood. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/28/2004 6:26:01 AM |
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His total body of work should be disregarded because you disagree with MS's license fees?
Grow up. |
| #2 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at 1/28/2004 6:57:05 AM |
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"The man is a predator and uses any means to crush the competition, even if it means illegal practices, and even worse, he gets away with it!"
Hmm, isn't this exactly what real knights did in the olden days either defending or as the army of merry old England? If the Queen's sea dogs were worthy of knighthood, then Bill Gates surely is too. |
| #3 By 2459 (24.175.137.164) at 1/28/2004 10:26:50 AM |
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Reminds me of the Black Knight (from Monty Python) that was in total denial even though he was hacked to pieces by his competition (lol, hacked :-)).
BTW, what self-respecting UNIX group promotes Linux over UNIX? |
| #4 By 2459 (24.175.137.164) at 1/28/2004 10:45:32 AM |
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MS UNIX was Xenix.
With SFU being free, MS could once again have the largest base of x86 Unix users :-) |
| #5 By 2459 (24.175.137.164) at 1/28/2004 9:54:05 PM |
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lol. I don't think I'd want SFU automatically installed, and most users don't need it.
However, I meant that if there were a significant amount of people that wanted to run Windows primarily, but still wanted to run n*x apps, etc., for whatever reason, SFU being a free download could provide an option to dual booting. With the amount of people that use Windows as their primary desktop OS, but want to try out n*x or are proficient with it, the number of users could rise above x86 n*x desktop users. Of course, it may not surpass free x86 n*x OSes on the desktop because many wanting n*x might prefer a n*x OS. Though it might make some of the Wine and Crossover folks switch. They could use their Windows and n*x apps at the same time, and actually have both function correctly. :-) |
| #6 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 1/28/2004 11:57:08 PM |
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root@localhost - "Gates has donated much money (tax deductible)"
Oh, well its TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Well, then it doesnt even count as benevolence. What kind of warped logic is that. So what if its deductible. That just stops the gov from taking a 40% chunk of his profits. It doesnt cheapen the ACT OF GIVING. But your lamearse wouldnt know anything about that would it? You'd rather criticize a SELFLESS act. And yes, SELFLESS applies to his giving. I put a $20 bill in my church's collection plate, but take it off my taxes. Does that cheapen the gift? What a retarded notion. |
| #7 By 19992 (164.214.4.61) at 1/29/2004 8:40:04 AM |
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I personally don't think he should be knighted, but then again, I thought that knighting Mick Jagger, Tim Berners-Lee, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Elton John, Steve Redgrave (British olympic oarsman), etc was a waste as well.
So many people have been knighted over the years for useless things (acting in movies is worthy of knighthood?!?!?!) that the idea of being knighted has lost most of it's prestige. |
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