Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback He has used personal insults so I would suspect that he is abusing the Ts & Cs of Talkback (I haven't checked though). Although the last question is probably a little unfair on Smithy as he's clearly never been to a university (not an insult, just...
[March 11, 2005, 13:00]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback For you, a Nigerian to sit in Britain and mindlessly attack Bill gates for the wonderful very vital humanitarian work he is doingin Africa is simply beyond belief! Bill Gates has put in far more money into fighting diseases and poverty in Africa...
[January 28, 2004, 12:17]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates can do a lot of things. But he sure can't stop someone from clicking on an "exe" file and effectively installing a virus on his own computer. Well, most Unix mail clients don't allow you to execute attachments at all (I can't think of...
[January 28, 2004, 8:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "This is especially inpressive given that he is now left with only $55 Billion according to Forbes magazine. 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...
[January 28, 2004, 0:07]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates can do a lot of things. The other point I want to take David Hallowell on is, he claims that : " .l MS does deserve a lot of the blame too. In the piece entitled "Experts: Vicious worm 'Linux war' weapon" here is a quote: http://edition...
[January 27, 2004, 23:34]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates should have been made Lord Gates of The New World. 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. Why do you Poms moan so much?
[February 1, 2004, 21:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback The screaming, whimpering, maleducated, troll - serf "smithy" makes a total fool of himself, as he has throughout this thread IMO making claims and offering no back up other than his heresay, which counts for nothing.
[January 31, 2004, 17:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bil Gates bringing in huge amonuts of medicines, doctors, equipment to save our sick children free of charge, is just about one of the best things that has happened to Africa fr a very very long time.
[January 31, 2004, 16:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Then to show how he sticks to "facts" and not opinions, "Bascule" comes up with this gem You screaming that something is so, desn't make it so does it? Given that the installed base of Windows is to an order of magnitude for far bigger than Lnux...
[January 30, 2004, 6:50]
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 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. Smithy, I can say that this user group is not rapidly...
[January 27, 2004, 21:48]
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 " Gates' tremendous charity work is one of the reasons (if not the main reason) that he is being honoured.
[January 27, 2004, 23:58]
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 also claims : "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"
[January 27, 2004, 23:04]
