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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
News The UK Unix User Group is up in arms at the prospect of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receiving an honorary knighthood. Following the news that the Microsoft founder, who is the world's wealthiest man, will receive an honorary knighthood for...
[January 27, 2004, 14:55]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "Bascule : "Less secure? One flaw in 7 years" Wrong again. Go to CERT and check their figures. According to CERT, Linux has had up to 3 times as many security break ins as Windows 2003. Bascule was clearly referring to OpenBSD, not Linux.
[March 24, 2005, 5:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback With regard to your stay in Germany, Smithy, one can only say that you and I are not completely ignorant about the realities of living. Much as in Africa, in Europe or in the States, one would be careful of where one stays and where one chooses to...
[February 2, 2004, 13:31]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, one smiles when you praise Gates for the movement of doctors and medicines in to Africa. What about the intellect that is being poached out of Africa - enourmous "brain drain" comparatively speaking.
[February 2, 2004, 13:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Glad to see that we are aproaching something close to common ground. I must however emphasise, much like Nunez, that a country imposing rules that favour the use of open source does not exclude American companies.
[February 2, 2004, 12:24]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates should have been made Lord Gates of The New World. Why do you Poms moan so much? He has brought so much to so many people in the world but all you moaning little creeps can think about is the nagative aspects.
[February 1, 2004, 21:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "azura" the moronic, uneducated, semi-illiterate, brain dead, Linux terrorist and psychopath shows the whole world exactly why Linux fanatics are universally detested everywhere they open their foul mouths and spew out their hate-filled rhetoric.
[February 1, 2004, 1:13]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I couldn't find those figures you mentioned, just these: http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/ All windows bar 2. The screaming, whimpering, maleducated, troll - serf "smithy" makes a total fool of himself, as he has throughout this thread IMO making...
[January 31, 2004, 17:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Just try and seperate your rabid hatred of Microsoft, from the great work Bill Gates is doing for our childen , our sick and our suffering will you? Bil Gates bringing in huge amonuts of medicines, doctors, equipment to save our sick children free...
[January 31, 2004, 16:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Adebayo Omo-Dare : "Under your principle one should be forced to say that the US is a terrilble place because 200yrs ago it used slaves as the backbone of its " The key word here is 200 years ago. Thats the difference between Americ ad Europe.
[January 31, 2004, 16:03]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback aAebayo Omo-Dare screeches : "Each countries gov has standards set for procurement. If a company chooses not to accept those standards " Every country can do what they like, so far as its within the rules laid down by international trade...
[January 31, 2004, 15:48]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule : "Less secure? One flaw in 7 years" Wrong again. Go to CERT and check their figures. According to CERT, Linux has had up to 3 times as many security break ins as Windows 2003. Now CERT is an independent body.
[January 31, 2004, 15:39]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule whines : "Microsoft VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.to conduct a series of tests enough said " Veristest is an independent, world class, world recognised IT testing company.
[January 31, 2004, 15:32]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback One does apologise, smithy, I did mean abolition and not prohibition -- Languages, hey.
[January 31, 2004, 11:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy: "US GDP a sizzling . Well you appear to not have listened to the concerns of a lot of the US economists. I prefer to look at the foundation of such growth.as it describes the future impact of such policies.
[January 31, 2004, 10:27]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Then, Smithy, there is the economy. One must say that Africa suffers from an absence of good economic strategies that are production related as there are many who see development from the consumption side of the equation and few that see it from...
[January 31, 2004, 10:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback We now go on to your issue about the Jews. Tough call as it comes up often. Under your principle one should be forced to say that the US is a terrilble place because 200yrs ago it used slaves as the backbone of its accelerated development and rise...
[January 31, 2004, 10:13]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy : "Doesn't oppose the dev of Open Source Software.etc" Well much like the US embassy rep, you seem not to understand the diff b/w OSS and Free software. This was cleared up by Nunez -http://www.opensource.org/docs/peru_and_ms.php.
[January 31, 2004, 10:04]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback http://www.openbsd.org/ Less secure? One flaw in 7 years.ever heard of a windows firewall? Nope Bye for now
[January 31, 2004, 2:54]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Microsoft VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.to conduct a series of tests enough said http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/benchmarks/ World Records galore
[January 31, 2004, 2:47]
