TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
Slow news day. Happy Sunday, frogs!
Thought I'd share.... This guy has been a totalitarian rat fucking bastard literally his entire life. Back during the "browser wars," back in late 2001, I think, Microsoft released Internet Explorer V6, which basically used its stranglehold on the browser ecosystem's market share to shatter the fledgling WWW's standards by forcing developers to make a choice between adhering to those standards or being able to remain compatible with many of the Microsoft systems our clients were using. Often, it required us to develop two entirely distinct products, one for Microsoft clients and one for everyone else. This was due to Microsoft's legendary "EEE" corporate approach to new, competing technologies: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. In other words, 1) establish yourself as a player, 2) make your product inseparable from dominant Microsoft products (at one time you couldn't unbundle IE6 without uninstalling Windows itself), and, finally, 3) use that dominant position to lock out competing tech (like Netscape).
Anyone else old enough to remember these days? I can remember SO many late nights swearing to God I would "murder" this man, LOL, you have no idea
I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s. Threw in a little Linux. Screw Gates. My first PC(1990) was a 386 with SCO XENIX. I'm one of the lucky few that while I used MS for things like games I had other options for net surfing and web servers. With OpenOffice now etc... why do we need MS anymore? A: WE DON'T!
The only problem with Linux is the game selection is still a little sparse. Everything else is FAR superior to anything MS can offer. I use Slackware myself but that's because I'm old school. When I first used Linux there were only 3-4 distros.
I bought Macs for my daughters after I bought a used one on eBay to try it out. My life was so much easier after that. I wasn’t constantly working on their Windows machines any more. Linux wasn’t an option then for all the school stuff they had to do.
TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
Slow news day. Happy Sunday, frogs!
Thought I'd share.... This guy has been a totalitarian rat fucking bastard literally his entire life. Back during the "browser wars," back in late 2001, I think, Microsoft released Internet Explorer V6, which basically used its stranglehold on the browser ecosystem's market share to shatter the fledgling WWW's standards by forcing developers to make a choice between adhering to those standards or being able to remain compatible with many of the Microsoft systems our clients were using. Often, it required us to develop two entirely distinct products, one for Microsoft clients and one for everyone else. This was due to Microsoft's legendary "EEE" corporate approach to new, competing technologies: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. In other words, 1) establish yourself as a player, 2) make your product inseparable from dominant Microsoft products (at one time you couldn't unbundle IE6 without uninstalling Windows itself), and, finally, 3) use that dominant position to lock out competing tech (like Netscape).
Anyone else old enough to remember these days? I can remember SO many late nights swearing to God I would "murder" this man, LOL, you have no idea
I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s. Threw in a little Linux. Screw Gates. My first PC(1990) was a 386 with SCO XENIX. I'm one of the lucky few that while I used MS for things like games I had other options for net surfing and web servers. With OpenOffice now etc... why do we need MS anymore? A: WE DON'T!
I switched our 6 PC household over to Linux Mint this summer when I saw the Windows 11 BS coming. Never regretted it once.
Bonus to no bloat and spyware: Windows Networking and Remote Desktop works FLAWLESSLY in Linux Mint.
This will be my next move. I like Mint!
The only problem with Linux is the game selection is still a little sparse. Everything else is FAR superior to anything MS can offer. I use Slackware myself but that's because I'm old school. When I first used Linux there were only 3-4 distros.
I bought Macs for my daughters after I bought a used one on eBay to try it out. My life was so much easier after that. I wasn’t constantly working on their Windows machines any more. Linux wasn’t an option then for all the school stuff they had to do.