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Story: Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Posted by: David Hallowell (Tuesday 27 January 2004, 10:48 PM)
Smithy, I can say that this user group is not rapidly declining and in fact has been growing in popularity since the late 90's mainly due to the success of Linux.
Charles' comments are not anti Microsoft for the sake of being anti Microsoft, he's just stating that Bill Gates is not worthy of a knighthood, which based on his track record is a fair comment. Remember his company was found guilty of anti-competitive business practices in the US (the fact that their punishment was so weak as to be ineffective is another matter) and is facing the same fate in the EU.
As for virus writers being Linux users you're just falling for the misinformation from the likes of SCO and Microsoft, just because a small number of people write viruses and they may happen to run Linux (who knows?) doesn't mean all Linux users are like that, they are a minority, hated by both the vast majority of Linux and Windows users.
You can't judge a group of people by a small minority claiming to be from the group they represent - there's extremists everywhere from all walks of life.
I do believe the virus writers are bad people but still MS does deserve a lot of the blame too. Imagine buying a car that was advertised for its security features and then someone manages to steal it using a paperclip - the criminal may be the person to blame, but the manufacturer shipped an insecure product despite the knowledge that someone would take advantage.
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Story: Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
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