Flyboy Connor

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since June 20, 2002

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June 20, 2002, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
"If you don't like Bill Gates, you're just JEALOUS of his MONEY!" That's not true. If this were true, I would be envious of everyone who makes more money than I do. That's not the case. Having a loads of money will probably be tremendous fun, but you can have a happy life without it. As many have proved. And it doesn't seem Bill has much time to enjoy his richness. "In that case, you are just JEALOUS of his POWER!" Again, not true. Besides the fact that it is doubtful whether Bill has that much power, power is only fun if you can abuse it for your own entertainment. And it doesn't look like Bill is doing that. No, the main problem I have with Bill Gates, or rather, with Microsoft (for which he is the most obvious icon) is that the Microsoft stranglehold on the world of computing has pretty much destroyed the beauty, elegance and progressiveness of my own profession, computer science. And Windows is the main culprit. Windows is bloated. It's difficult to use (it takes a n...