Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Bill Gates is in town, picking up his knighthood and probably laying down the law over all this open-source silliness. So here's Mr Gates, standing amazed at his own restraint in not putting prices up, although he is a bit fed up with the bum deal...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
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 Like I keep saying, most viruses and attacks by far are directed against Windows machines, a lot of them by Linux/Open source haters. James Youngman : "Well, most Unix mail clients don't allow you to execute attachments at all (I can't think of one...
[January 28, 2004, 11:40]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback In his June letter, Hamilton said that while the United States doesn't oppose the development of open-source software, it prefers to support a free market where the quality of the product can determine the issue.
[January 30, 2004, 11:16]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback To take some funny figures from an open source site of dubious reputation, using some open source benchmark that no one but open source fanatics recognise,is the best equivalent of a loaded dice I ever saw.
[January 30, 2004, 6:50]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Most Microsoft Microsoft software users are just normal people who don't even know what open source or Linux is. The open source/Linux movement however is another matter altogether. You should see what those open source fanatics regularly propose...
[January 29, 2004, 20:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Plus of course the open source community take great pleasure and glee in hollering hysterically anytime there is the slightest security issue with Windows, and totally refuse to accept any defence of Microsoft using the same ecuse you just made...
[January 29, 2004, 20:07]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Though one would not like to begin to blab about pre and post World War economic/political policies/strategies and the "exodermic and endodermic" shocks introduced on both sides of that equation in developing nations, one would say that...
[January 29, 2004, 11:12]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I must however emphasise, much like Nunez, that a country imposing rules that favour the use of open source does not exclude American companies. What such rules do say is that any org, from whatever nation, that wishes to sell solutions in the...
[February 2, 2004, 12:24]
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 Bottom line : Despite constant boasts from the open source/linux crazies about how secure and bullet proof open source is, in practice it doesn't even come close to being secure, having had your very source code getting hacked into and compromised...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates did not hold a gun to the head of anybody to buy Microsoft software. adebayo omo-dare asserts that : "one would say that indications of Microsoft's basic attitude with regards to the so called Developing Nations was clearly seen in...
[January 29, 2004, 19:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates can do a lot of things. The overwhelming majority of viruses are wrtten against Windows , a lot of them (like the "MyDoom" virus) writen by open source/Linux fanatics to do damage to Microsoft.
[January 27, 2004, 23:34]
