Chris Smith

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• February 4, 2003, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  For all of you who do not have any hatred towards Microsoft, I suggest you try GNU/Linux. You will quickly change your point of view, I did. I used to be unenlightened like the rest of you. I said, "Microsoft has the apps and the support of the PC industey, it must be doing something right". The things Microsoft does right is lie, cheat, and steal. They constantly bash open-source, especially GNU/Linux. Unfortunately the information they release is completely false. They make their OS biased towards their apps so that alternativie apps will not work well or at all (DR-DOS, for example). What's funny is that they stole DR-DOS in the firt place when it was CP/M. Unfortunately for the computer comunity QDOS (cheap, unauthorized copy of CP/M) was only a buggy version of CP/M. Consumers still have to live with that buggy 16 bit code in Windows XP. Wait a minute...I thought Windows XP was a 32 bit system completely devoid of 16 bit DOS...guess again. Yup, all that crappy code f...

• February 4, 2003, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  I just wanted to add a few things. First, the internet was around well before Microsoft, they did not invent it and if anything they made it worse by implementing their own propietary HTML and ASP which will divide people using the internet into MS/IE and non-MS/IE users...what comes next? Conquest. Second, don't think Bill is a great guy because he donates money. I could donate a quarter but no one is going to think i'm charitable for doing it. If he actually made a noticable dent in his own wealth to contribute to humanity then it would be a different story, but he hasn't. He's probably making more money from his tax deductions on his "charity". As a bonus to that he often includes clauses in his agreements with schools when he donates money to them that state that the money may not be used for computers other than Wintel machines. He's not helping out, he's ensuring the future of his wealth. Third, MS has not made technology advance at an increased rate. Bill may have i...