Not so. He built a multi-billion dollar company on providing the minimal acceptable user experience for $50 (at the time) in a shrink-wrap box at CompUSA (cough......remember them).
I walked away in '95 and went to Linux (first Caldera, then Red Hat. then Mandriva. then Ubuntu (see a pattern??).). Ubunto for the last 10yrs now. but i still buy (retail) laptops with windoze installed......then dual-boot linux......then boot into windoze once/yr to prepare my taxes.
I believe that Gates actually stole the idea from Sun Microsystems back in the day. Gates also had a partner that he totally screwed out of any of the early profits that he himself enjoyed.
Well, I believe we're judging for Billy Gates. I,E. .... "if you insist on Bill Gates only talking about things he knows about, Bill Gates won’t have anything to say."
Not so. With a net worth of $90B or so....he has a skill.
I don't have that net worth. I read your posts, sometimes reluctantly......you don't have that net worth, either.
Don't underestimate your enemies.
I know what I could/would do with $90B.
No 'miniature giraffes', here in those choices.
If you have a plan to counter that, I'd say were 'all ears'. Only half of us though. The decorative half just bitch.
,,,valid observation....
Not so. He built a multi-billion dollar company on providing the minimal acceptable user experience for $50 (at the time) in a shrink-wrap box at CompUSA (cough......remember them).
I walked away in '95 and went to Linux (first Caldera, then Red Hat. then Mandriva. then Ubuntu (see a pattern??).). Ubunto for the last 10yrs now. but i still buy (retail) laptops with windoze installed......then dual-boot linux......then boot into windoze once/yr to prepare my taxes.
I believe that Gates actually stole the idea from Sun Microsystems back in the day. Gates also had a partner that he totally screwed out of any of the early profits that he himself enjoyed.
...so he is utilizing this "experience" and entering the "health care" arena...
...I can see a pattern developing...
...howls....
Well, I believe we're judging for Billy Gates. I,E. .... "if you insist on Bill Gates only talking about things he knows about, Bill Gates won’t have anything to say."
Not so. With a net worth of $90B or so....he has a skill.
I don't have that net worth. I read your posts, sometimes reluctantly......you don't have that net worth, either.
Don't underestimate your enemies.
I know what I could/would do with $90B. No 'miniature giraffes', here in those choices.
If you have a plan to counter that, I'd say were 'all ears'. Only half of us though. The decorative half just bitch.
...I was just being flippant...
...save your advice for someone who values it....
It's so cute when pedes speak on things they know nothing about.