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Why do ppl still look up to Bill Gates?
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SumatraBosch
2021 Jun 26, 11:49am
SumatraBosch
2021 Jun 26, 11:49am
Gates' mom's sleazing and grifting on behalf of her son's cheezy, broken operating system will allow Melinda to retire to Taratupa with her own hockey team to service her on a three-shift basis.
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AmericanKulak
2021 Jun 26, 11:58am
AmericanKulak
2021 Jun 26, 11:58am
SumatraBosch says
Gates' mom is the reason he's rich. She was a corporate lawyer, as was his father, with all the Aerospace/IT companies on the West Coast on Speeddial.
That's why he was given meetings with Xerox, HP, etc. back when any other 19-year old drop out would be given an unpaid internship form and would have been stopped at the security desk. Never would have even made it to the Executive Secretary.
Gates' mom's sleazing and grifting on behalf of her son's cheezy, broken operating system will allow Melinda to retire to Taratupa with her own hockey team to service her on a three-shift basis.
Gates' mom is the reason he's rich. She was a corporate lawyer, as was his father, with all the Aerospace/IT companies on the West Coast on Speeddial.
That's why he was given meetings with Xerox, HP, etc. back when any other 19-year old drop out would be given an unpaid internship form and would have been stopped at the security desk. Never would have even made it to the Executive Secretary.
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Rin
2021 Jun 26, 4:18pm
Rin
2021 Jun 26, 4:18pm
B.A.C.A.H. says
Yes, some even in MA, at Digital Equipment Corp, when I was a kid.
The point isn't that the top dog, whether it's in relational databases/ERPs or desktop operating systems, isn't a shrewd and cunning business person but it's the fact that instead of being seen as one, people actually believe that Gates is a genius humanitarian ... a mix of Doogie Howser's brains & Mother Teresa's charities. In reality, he's none of the above. The only thing him and Paul Allen did was write a basic compiler, BFD! Nearly every comp science major writes some compiler during his studies.
Ellison is exactly what he is in the news ... shrewd, cutthroat, visionary, athletic, party animal, competitor, and a narcissist.
And yes, he was a minicomputer programmer, among his starting three, before becoming a loud mouth and a general 'bad boy' CEO of the Valley.
Instead of the above, Gates bought DOS from another Seattle company & afterwards, basically had his staff reverse engineer the Mac UI to put Windows on top of DOS and won the lawsuit against Jobs by not using any of the actual libraries from the Mac but only 'the features'.
The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.
People I know were hurt by Ellison's anti-competitive steamroller.
Yes, some even in MA, at Digital Equipment Corp, when I was a kid.
The point isn't that the top dog, whether it's in relational databases/ERPs or desktop operating systems, isn't a shrewd and cunning business person but it's the fact that instead of being seen as one, people actually believe that Gates is a genius humanitarian ... a mix of Doogie Howser's brains & Mother Teresa's charities. In reality, he's none of the above. The only thing him and Paul Allen did was write a basic compiler, BFD! Nearly every comp science major writes some compiler during his studies.
Ellison is exactly what he is in the news ... shrewd, cutthroat, visionary, athletic, party animal, competitor, and a narcissist.
And yes, he was a minicomputer programmer, among his starting three, before becoming a loud mouth and a general 'bad boy' CEO of the Valley.
Instead of the above, Gates bought DOS from another Seattle company & afterwards, basically had his staff reverse engineer the Mac UI to put Windows on top of DOS and won the lawsuit against Jobs by not using any of the actual libraries from the Mac but only 'the features'.
The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.
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Patrick
2021 Jun 26, 4:37pm
Patrick
2021 Jun 26, 4:37pm
I'd enjoy seeing Larry Ellison vs Bill Gates in a fistfight.
Just because everyone knows who would win.
Just because everyone knows who would win.
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richwicks
2021 Jun 26, 4:43pm
richwicks
2021 Jun 26, 4:43pm
Rin says
I need to correct you one a few things - which you may already know.
The MAC GUI was not created by Apple. It was created by Xerox Parc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H79_kKzmFs
Apple is more famous for appearing to invent things, but I can't think of anything they've actually invented. They're very good at marketing.
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
Instead of the above, Gates bought DOS from another Seattle company & afterwards, basically had his staff reverse engineer the Mac UI to put Windows on top of DOS and won the lawsuit against Jobs by not using any of the actual libraries from the Mac but only 'the features'.
I need to correct you one a few things - which you may already know.
The MAC GUI was not created by Apple. It was created by Xerox Parc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H79_kKzmFs
Apple is more famous for appearing to invent things, but I can't think of anything they've actually invented. They're very good at marketing.
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
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B.A.C.A.H.
2021 Jun 26, 6:21pm
B.A.C.A.H.
2021 Jun 26, 6:21pm
Rin says
Like JD Rockefeller back in the day. Give it time.
The public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.
Like JD Rockefeller back in the day. Give it time.
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HeadSet
2021 Jun 27, 8:19am
HeadSet
2021 Jun 27, 8:19am
richwicks says
As did GEOS.
Anyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
As did GEOS.
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RC2006
2021 Jun 27, 10:04am
RC2006
2021 Jun 27, 10:04am
HeadSet says
GEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.
richwicks saysAnyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
As did GEOS.
GEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.
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Onvacation
2021 Jun 27, 12:39pm
Onvacation
2021 Jun 27, 12:39pm
BILL GATES ASKED TRUMP TO NOT INVESTIGATE INTO VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS
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richwicks
2021 Jun 27, 8:07pm
richwicks
2021 Jun 27, 8:07pm
HeadSet says
Oh yeah! I forgot about Geos. That came out in 1986 (had to look that up).
richwicks saysAnyhow, Microsoft certainly deserved to win that lawsuit and X11 predated Windows 1.0. Amiga did as well.
As did GEOS.
Oh yeah! I forgot about Geos. That came out in 1986 (had to look that up).
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Rin
2021 Jun 29, 10:25am
Rin
2021 Jun 29, 10:25am
B.A.C.A.H. says
Well, here's what I've heard about JDR I, from now a deceased grand uncle ... he was basically a hated man when Standard Oil was the sole producer and distributor of oil, at some 90% of the nation's supply. This was basically the time of the 1890s to the time prior to the Trust busting era of the 1910s.
So as he got into philanthropy, his son, JDR II led that move and thus, created a type of separation between the patriarch and the scion.
Understand this ... the company hired mercenaries to shoot at the miners in a shantytown tent setup in Ludlow Colorado back in 1914 and it was JDR II, who eventually tried to sooth things over, to prevent a massacre like it in the future where American workers and hitmen went at it full throttle.
This is a far cry from William Gates III, who did all his dirty deeds using 3rd world countries as guinea pigs. It's not nearly as explosive nationally, as what JDR I's bad boys did real-time when they were an effective multi-state monopoly.
So for Gates to have a target on his back, all the victims of vaccination need to step up and tell their stories.
Rin saysThe public image of Bill Gates is a complete sham.
Like JD Rockefeller back in the day. Give it time.
Well, here's what I've heard about JDR I, from now a deceased grand uncle ... he was basically a hated man when Standard Oil was the sole producer and distributor of oil, at some 90% of the nation's supply. This was basically the time of the 1890s to the time prior to the Trust busting era of the 1910s.
So as he got into philanthropy, his son, JDR II led that move and thus, created a type of separation between the patriarch and the scion.
Understand this ... the company hired mercenaries to shoot at the miners in a shantytown tent setup in Ludlow Colorado back in 1914 and it was JDR II, who eventually tried to sooth things over, to prevent a massacre like it in the future where American workers and hitmen went at it full throttle.
This is a far cry from William Gates III, who did all his dirty deeds using 3rd world countries as guinea pigs. It's not nearly as explosive nationally, as what JDR I's bad boys did real-time when they were an effective multi-state monopoly.
So for Gates to have a target on his back, all the victims of vaccination need to step up and tell their stories.
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Rin
2021 Jun 30, 2:55pm
Rin
2021 Jun 30, 2:55pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-hosted-nude-pool-202524601.html
Excerpt: 'During Microsoft's early days in the late 80's and early 90's, Bill Gates had a propensity for partying, insiders said.
On more than one occasion, during nights he wasn't working his usual 17-hour days, he invited friends and dancers from local all-nude nightclubs to swim naked at his Laurelhurst bachelor pad overlooking Lake Washington, James Wallace, who wrote two biographies on Gates, said.
"Gates himself rounded up the girls and brought them over there," Wallace said. "I don't know if he physically transported them or if he just told them where to show up."
Gates was a regular attendee of exclusive after-parties at major computer expo trade conferences like Comdex and Demo, where Gates was often the keynote speaker. "Bill drank, and he got drunk pretty easily," said Robert X. Cringely, who wrote a popular computer gossip column for InfoWorld around that time.
"All of us will have been at some affair where Bill was clearly impaired. He was happier" drunk, Cringely said.
Gates preferred to keep his romantic options open while he was dating Melinda, and he struggled to commit to her. "Bill wanted to be married, but he didn't know whether he could actually commit to it and have Microsoft," Melinda said of the time they were dating in an interview for the Netflix docuseries "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates."'
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In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying (sorry, make that attempts at partying) but unlike Larry, he wasn't honest about it and wanted to maintain a faux public image of "Mr Goody-2-Shoes" to fit the narrative of him being a smart humanitarian vs a regular business type with too much money in his hands.
Excerpt: 'During Microsoft's early days in the late 80's and early 90's, Bill Gates had a propensity for partying, insiders said.
On more than one occasion, during nights he wasn't working his usual 17-hour days, he invited friends and dancers from local all-nude nightclubs to swim naked at his Laurelhurst bachelor pad overlooking Lake Washington, James Wallace, who wrote two biographies on Gates, said.
"Gates himself rounded up the girls and brought them over there," Wallace said. "I don't know if he physically transported them or if he just told them where to show up."
Gates was a regular attendee of exclusive after-parties at major computer expo trade conferences like Comdex and Demo, where Gates was often the keynote speaker. "Bill drank, and he got drunk pretty easily," said Robert X. Cringely, who wrote a popular computer gossip column for InfoWorld around that time.
"All of us will have been at some affair where Bill was clearly impaired. He was happier" drunk, Cringely said.
Gates preferred to keep his romantic options open while he was dating Melinda, and he struggled to commit to her. "Bill wanted to be married, but he didn't know whether he could actually commit to it and have Microsoft," Melinda said of the time they were dating in an interview for the Netflix docuseries "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates."'
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In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying (sorry, make that attempts at partying) but unlike Larry, he wasn't honest about it and wanted to maintain a faux public image of "Mr Goody-2-Shoes" to fit the narrative of him being a smart humanitarian vs a regular business type with too much money in his hands.
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AmericanKulak
2021 Jun 30, 5:34pm
AmericanKulak
2021 Jun 30, 5:34pm
HeadSet says
YEP! And the 1541 was deliberately slowed down to be VIC-20 compatible.
RC2006 saysGEOS, that was running on my 386 forgot about that one.
GEOS also ran on a Commodore 64.
YEP! And the 1541 was deliberately slowed down to be VIC-20 compatible.
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Ceffer
2021 Jun 30, 5:51pm
Ceffer
2021 Jun 30, 5:51pm
Rin says
I'm disappointed. I would have thought they would crack open the necks of a few terrified children and drank direct from the spigot while kneeling whores serviced them, the blood pouring over their faces. They are losers as Globalists.
In other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying
I'm disappointed. I would have thought they would crack open the necks of a few terrified children and drank direct from the spigot while kneeling whores serviced them, the blood pouring over their faces. They are losers as Globalists.
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Rin
2021 Jun 30, 6:14pm
Rin
2021 Jun 30, 6:14pm
Ceffer says
Yes, as a partier, Gates is totally lame against the likes of a Larry Ellison.
Rin saysIn other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying
I'm disappointed.
Yes, as a partier, Gates is totally lame against the likes of a Larry Ellison.
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KgK one
2021 Jul 2, 8:45am
Bill gates been investing lot on vaccines. I wonder if he will bundle vaccine with MS product like office. Free vaccine with office purchase. Or vice versa.
Once all your files n health are on Microsoft then upgrades , membership, n booster shot will be extra. Wink wink.
Once all your files n health are on Microsoft then upgrades , membership, n booster shot will be extra. Wink wink.
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Seriously, I don't get all the adulation.
Certainly, Gates made a lot of money and sure, his first thousand Microsoft employees all became millionaires but that's being a shrewd businessman, making the starting 1K have a full stake in the outcome.
Regardless, I never saw people talk about John D Rockefeller as a genius, tech visionary, nor humanitarian.
In contrast, people are saying that Gates is one of the greatest men, for giving away his wealth for the betterment of humanity but I say, he's just an egotist who's using his foundation as both, a tax sheltered hedge fund (as his billions of dollars of equity then don't go through the probate system), as well as a platform for people to speak highly of him, giving himself a title of nobility of sorts.
The Czar of International Health Care (plus Vaccinations).
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So what's the Real Politik of William Gates III?
The story of Microsoft is that his mother helped him broker the deal with IBM, which got MS-DOS onto every shipped PC. And MS-DOS, itself, was bought from some Seattle firm for $50K.
Let's contrast that to an actual software (not re-packaging) billionaire, one that I model myself after.
Larry Ellison, clearly a playboy/party animal (and not the stereotype of an engineering nerd), did more programming than Gates, on both the mainframe and minicomputers, during his IT career prior to starting Relational Software (changed to Oracle) and afterwards, up until version 2 where he transitioned into a CEO type, selling his vision while letting others do the work.