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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. Bill Gates, though he steals from the poor and weak and...
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback 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...
[January 27, 2004, 21:48]
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]
Here Today, Gong Tomorrow For 'Sir' Bill Gates
News Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to receive an honorary knighthood from the Queen, in recognition of his services to global enterprise. The Foreign Office announced early on Monday that Gates -- the software superstar who puts the Bill into...
[January 26, 2004, 8:35]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 And how does the absorbtion of such intellect aid with the accelerated growth of the US? 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...
[February 2, 2004, 13:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback This is not against WTO conventions, in as much as the US military demanding that each of their procured goods are made trackable through the use of RFID is not against WTO conventions. I must however emphasise, much like Nunez, that a country...
[February 2, 2004, 12:24]
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 One guesses that this is one of the things that separate us, you being gleefully and totally dependent on Microsoft. One must say that Africa suffers from an absence of good economic strategies that are production related as there are many who see...
[January 31, 2004, 10:22]
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 Europeans not only slaughtered to the tune of 6 million Jews in gas chambers just...
[January 31, 2004, 16:03]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Well you appear to not have listened to the concerns of a lot of the US economists. It also makes issues like the US invasion of Iraq look suspect. 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 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 Adebayo Omo-Dare : "Neither am I ignorant about the effects of the US' 20+ trillion deficit on the US economy -. 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...
[January 30, 2004, 11:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Neither am I ignorant about the effects of the US' 20+ trillion deficit on the US economy - present or future. Smithy, I am not at all ignorant about economic disparities in the US. Neither do I have to be Anti-US to know of such things.
[January 30, 2004, 10:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback 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 to prominence. US clipper ships were spotted on the coast of WA even after...
[January 31, 2004, 10:13]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Was Bill being knighted for services to humanity thanks to his charity work none of us would have a problem. Paul mentioned one of the things I have to point out. The problem we have is that he's being knighted for abusing his monopoly.
[March 3, 2005, 12:03]
