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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Foreign Office to honour Bill Gates (with a knighthood). Microsoft or Bill Gates. Getting back to Microsoft, I suggest reading Monday's The Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2020-9080-978071,00.html if it is still available...
[January 27, 2004, 22:33]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates is every bit as deserving of knighthood as Tim Berners-Lee, Harold Evans, and other "noble" people who came before Bill. Thus Bill Gates is no less deserving of knighthood. At most Bill has always said that everyone else is also "doing...
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Listen, I lived In Britain for 10 years before moving to New York, and if Bill Gates is "not worthy" of a knighthood, then I can think of at least 10 people who were so honored, who had or subsequently committed crimes that would make Bill Gates...
[January 27, 2004, 23:04]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback As I am no supporter of the monarchy, I'm indifferent to his knighthood. However, do not blame Bill Gates and his crew for the crassness of their software, blame the unimaginitive people who bought it.
[March 3, 2005, 10:00]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback As I am no supporter of the monarchy, I'm indifferent to his knighthood. However, do not blame Bill Gates and his crew for the crassness of their software, blame the unimaginitive people who bought it.
[March 3, 2005, 10:02]
EC Gets Stuck In To XP Embedded
Talkback I don't know why HMG though that Bill Gates deserved an honorary knighthood, but giving it to him certainly won't have hurt him of the firm. If I came round to your house and killed you, I don't think the argument that "It's just a private argument...
[April 14, 2004, 18:51]
Signs Not Good For Microsoft In EU Case
News Despite Microsoft chairman Bill Gates picked up an honorary knighthood earlier this week, it looks like an EU investigation into the software company's anticompetitive behaviour is set to rule against Redmond's finest.
[January 28, 2004, 7:55]
Gongs For Geeks
Leader A knighthood makes sense, as did the £1m award last year from the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. Instead of Bill Gates, we have Clive Sinclair. Nerd, geek, boffin, techie, propellerhead: this is just some of the charming phraseology used by...
[January 28, 2005, 12:35]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates' charity contributions were not the reason for his knighthood, it's good that he makes these donations but lets not forget how insignificant they are compared to his total wealth, it's like the equivalent of someone who's unemployed...
[January 27, 2004, 23:40]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback David Hallowell : "Bill Gates' charity contributions were not the reason for his knighthood, it's good that he makes these donations " The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is now endowed with to the tune of a staggering $25 Billion from Bill Gates...
[January 27, 2004, 23:58]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
News Other readers said they were put off the whole idea of getting a knighthood: "It's a bit like giving a Nobel Prize for Peace to G.W. Bill Gates may be the richest man in the world, but he is obviously not completely fulfilled -- at least, not until...
[March 2, 2005, 17:30]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback As for the Honours (Honoury Knighthood - Bill Gates), think of it as 4th prize in a beauty contest. Although I personally think it makes no difference what you or I think about the situation, which can be demonstrated by the recent events with Iraq...
[March 3, 2005, 10:29]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I congratulate Bill Gates for the first knighthood worth giving. If I were president, I would fix this. You will see the president take it away for himself yet! I can't believe that the queen did this!
[March 3, 2005, 17:09]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback How much does a knighthood cost these days? Sorry Bill, Bill, can you feel the danger creaping under your bed? If the British empire wasn't already gone, this surely would have been the nail in the coffin.
[March 4, 2005, 16:46]
Europe And The US Philosophically Divided On Open Source?
News In the UK, Bill Gates has been given a knighthood, I can't imagine him getting a Légion d'honneur in France. Two years ago, the state of Oregon discussed a bill that would have mandated state agencies to consider open source software when deciding...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback David Hallowell, it doesn't matter what the attachment is , if the operating system is being used by ordinary people, kids, old people, etc etc, they can and they will click on the attachment and run an "exe" file by mistake and end up installing...
[January 28, 2004, 2:09]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Imagine if you will, that Linux has the market share of Windows today, and its being used by truck, drivers, miners, wrestlers and people who basically don't know or want to know too much about how computers work.
[January 28, 2004, 0:21]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback So what if he's giving away 99% of his money in the future (which I doubt), 1% of $55 billion is still more than enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle. Doing good things from basically money you obtained through unfair business practices does...
[January 28, 2004, 0:07]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It's OPEN SOURCE! 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...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Evety single day we hear about yet more vicious anti-semitic attacks against Jews in Europe.We all stil remember that it was these same Europeans who sluaghtetered to the tune of 6 million Jews in cold blood in Hitler's gas chambers , while the...
[January 30, 2004, 11:36]
