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
TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
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
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.
TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
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