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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. Yes, Bill Gates is a thief.
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
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]
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]
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]
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. I wish there was space to reproduce it all, especially the bits where Jules and Bill compare notes about turning fifty -- I do...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Here Today, Gong Tomorrow For 'Sir' Bill Gates
Talkback I was delighted to read that Tim Berners-Lee was to receive a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list. My reaction to the announcement that Bill Gates will too was the polar opposite. There's no doubt that his influence has been immense but at...
[January 26, 2004, 9:19]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Pro IPlayer Storm
Talkback But with Mark Thompson now at the top of the BBC (famed for barely been able to control himself when he sat next to Bill Gates in Davos and a Blairite political appointee), Erik Huggers (former Director at Microsoft) now running the BBC's online...
[July 30, 2007, 14:38]
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 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 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 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. Imagine buying a car that was advertised for its security features and then someone manages to...
[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. 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 Bill Gate's honour offer has been attached to the "so called" poor of the world - (West Africa, etc). It took an American Bill Gates to come in and really pump in money, equipment and the infrastructure and personall to really tackle these problems.
[January 28, 2004, 12:17]
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? Adebayo Omo-Dare : "One guesses that this is one of the things that separate us, you being...
[January 31, 2004, 16:14]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback People just stick with the status quo and that is how Bill makes those billions. I agree: Why should the founder of an aggressive monopoly be praised? Yes, the software is good (on the whole) but even if another company produced better they could...
[March 7, 2005, 8:47]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "Smithy" is clearly a troll. He has used personal insults so I would suspect that he is abusing the Ts & Cs of Talkback (I haven't checked though). Anyway, if xNIX is so insecure and M$ is so much better, why do all the banking systems, military...
[March 11, 2005, 13:00]
