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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]
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 Well, at the very least it's a devaluation of the knighthood. It's a bit like giving a Nobelprize for peace to G.W. Bush. It just takes away the shine. I wouldn't want to be knighted anymore (not that it was about to happen :-).
[March 2, 2005, 9:12]
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. I came to this conclusion just recently, having assisted a...
[March 2, 2005, 19:08]
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 BG deserves a knighthood for prompting this great talkback. Actually I think a "knighthood" is totally ridiculous. Funniest talkback I've ever seen! If you check your history books, you'll see that kinghts usually did very little other than hacking...
[March 2, 2005, 20:47]
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 " I will just refer you to the official Number 10 Downing Street announcement at : http://www.number-10.gov.uk...
[January 27, 2004, 23:58]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Adebayo Omo-Dare : "One wonders how long you have been burrying your head in the sand" I think its you who has been drnking the Linux cool aid pal. And it shows. Did you read the US Ambassador's letter fully at all?
[January 30, 2004, 11:16]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback what a joke! this drops the former honor bestowed by the english monarchy to a level below the honor one feels when they get a plastic medal out of a box of cracker jacks. What someone needs to do is beat billy up and take his undeserved medal away...
[March 3, 2005, 4:18]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "First of all you would be using a crappy Apple computer 10 generations behind if it wasnt for Bill," Heck, if it wasn't for Apple, Mixcrosoft wouldn't be where it is today. Microsoft's success has derives from Apple's own R&D.
[March 3, 2005, 1:56]
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 "shut up you american nonce, the difference between Bob Geldoff and Bill Gates is a world appart. And if it were not for Europe there wouldn't be an American population, so shut it. Now this is funny!
[March 2, 2005, 19:45]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback shut up you american nonce, the difference between Bob Geldoff and Bill Gates is a world appart. And if it were not for Europe there wouldn't be an American population, so shut it.
[March 2, 2005, 18:43]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback LOL.from what I see Smithy knows absolutely nothing about *nix systems. I doubt this moron has the capacity to. Go on.blindly attack what you don't understand Smithy.you look a fool.
[March 2, 2005, 9:18]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I would like to thank Bill Gates for the shiite that he produces and that keeps me gainfully employed having to wipe his ass.
[March 31, 2005, 19:55]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Windows 2003 smokes Linux yet again! Figures for file and print serving from Veritest, re Windows 2003 versus Linux at : http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/microsoft/ms_netbench.pdf Key Findings:
[January 30, 2004, 18:32]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule : "Though I agree there are far to few benchmarks to really get a clear picture on the 2003/*nix debate. I disagree 2003 smoked, it was close, all who read will see that is so. Check these head to heads between Windows 2003 and Red Hatd...
[January 30, 2004, 18:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule :"The debian source code got stolen? It's OPEN SOURCE! duhhhh " Debian source code, open source code, schmopen source code, who cares? Bottom line : Despite constant boasts from the open source/linux crazies about how secure and bullet...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback smithy ' they Linux ource code was easily hacked. And if Debian had not admitted it, those hackers would simply have released that info on the internet' The debian source code got stolen? It's OPEN SOURCE!
[January 30, 2004, 13:08]
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 -. Yeah? Listen. I have lived in Europe for over 10 years, before moving to the United States.
[January 30, 2004, 11:36]
