To dear old Bill
hi there..
If you are reading this blog it means that you use a computer and hence you are bound to know something about Bill Gates.Born in 1955 in a well to do do family .From early in his life Bill had a knack for money and was shrewd enough to set a new time table for his school so that he could study with all the pretty girls!!
I write this blog because I am actually frustrated by Microsoft's snobishness,and its yearning for money..A company which licensed its first ever software (an OS) to IBM in 70's ,by actually buying it from a different person for a meagre sum of $50,000,now boasts of having the richest man in the world as its head (by the way this particular deal is supposedly one of the major events of the past century..again showing Gates' skills at manipulating things!!).It copied its first ever Windows version from Macintosh by cheating Apple computers..
And now they are here crushing and buying out competition and forcing people to buy their inferior quality softwares.They could have at least open sourced or freewared recently launched version of Internet Explorer but they didn't..They have enough money.They could have afforded it,but they are too loath to lay off their hands from even a small penny!!!
Its okay that the guy wants to earn money..But my question is HOW MUCH DOES HE NEED???Doesn't he have enough???
Another instance which proves Microsoft's inferiority in making softwares is the fact that they couldn't add a 'tab' in the Internet Explorer it provides its users.And if you are still using an older version of Internet Explorer you might not be aware of what I am talking about.(Don't worry about me I am using Mozilla 2.0 while writing this and have switched over to LINUX as an OS).
If you need another sample of MS's pilfering (and if you are using windows) go to the desktop.
Right click on the mouse, move the arrow to new and click on folder icon..Name it as "CON".See what happens..
I think I have made my point clear ..I am not jealous of Bill Gates as you might think,I actually admire the way the he has managed to stay on top for so long..But the admiration ends there.!!
He might well be leaving MS now but he has left behind an empire which is built on the philosophy of copying stuff and reverse engineering them and selling them as your own to become rich..I don't know how long such an empire can sustain itself !!!
Some of us actually treat Gates as a role model. Well my advice to them would be "Know who you are following and to where!!!"
I hope you enjoyed reading this.My views might disagree with yours,but I am entitled to have an opinion isnt it?? :D
If you are reading this blog it means that you use a computer and hence you are bound to know something about Bill Gates.Born in 1955 in a well to do do family .From early in his life Bill had a knack for money and was shrewd enough to set a new time table for his school so that he could study with all the pretty girls!!
I write this blog because I am actually frustrated by Microsoft's snobishness,and its yearning for money..A company which licensed its first ever software (an OS) to IBM in 70's ,by actually buying it from a different person for a meagre sum of $50,000,now boasts of having the richest man in the world as its head (by the way this particular deal is supposedly one of the major events of the past century..again showing Gates' skills at manipulating things!!).It copied its first ever Windows version from Macintosh by cheating Apple computers..
And now they are here crushing and buying out competition and forcing people to buy their inferior quality softwares.They could have at least open sourced or freewared recently launched version of Internet Explorer but they didn't..They have enough money.They could have afforded it,but they are too loath to lay off their hands from even a small penny!!!
Its okay that the guy wants to earn money..But my question is HOW MUCH DOES HE NEED???Doesn't he have enough???
Another instance which proves Microsoft's inferiority in making softwares is the fact that they couldn't add a 'tab' in the Internet Explorer it provides its users.And if you are still using an older version of Internet Explorer you might not be aware of what I am talking about.(Don't worry about me I am using Mozilla 2.0 while writing this and have switched over to LINUX as an OS).
If you need another sample of MS's pilfering (and if you are using windows) go to the desktop.
Right click on the mouse, move the arrow to new and click on folder icon..Name it as "CON".See what happens..
I think I have made my point clear ..I am not jealous of Bill Gates as you might think,I actually admire the way the he has managed to stay on top for so long..But the admiration ends there.!!
He might well be leaving MS now but he has left behind an empire which is built on the philosophy of copying stuff and reverse engineering them and selling them as your own to become rich..I don't know how long such an empire can sustain itself !!!
Some of us actually treat Gates as a role model. Well my advice to them would be "Know who you are following and to where!!!"
I hope you enjoyed reading this.My views might disagree with yours,but I am entitled to have an opinion isnt it?? :D
posted by Anurag @ 2:25 PM
4 Comments:
At 10:21 AM,
celebrationsoflife said…
quite a thought provoking blog...
till date i hav been naming bill gates as my role model....guess will have to keep myself more informed and updated now....
At 7:10 AM,
HaSsAn... pApEr AeRoPlAnE said…
anurag i dont agree with most of ure blog coz i think ure biased about ure feelings towards microsoft and bill gates.....contrary to all uve written i feel bill gates is quite something otherwise every school dropout wud make it as big as he did....and plzz remember hez not the only one makin money 4m microsoft there r thousand others... and given an oppurtunity im sure u wudnt say no to a microsoft job would you????
i think it wud be much tougher 4 us if windows wasnt there ok lets do a survey and see how many of us have linux or any other operating system at home...and no ones forcing us to buy it 4m dem..almost of all of us use the pirated version of it.... have u been usin the original version????? :O
its very easy to find a flaw with the windows software and people like u have been at it 4 a long time now... so its no surprise that u point out the folder cant be named CON ..though u never point out it can almost be named anything else....
and u using linux and mozilla..wow yaar..but thats only because mozilla is faster and it seems everyone in mnnit is trying his/her hand at linux...
therz nothin wrong with what mr bill gates did in his school days to be with the gals ( some of us try to go n study in the library even though we can in our rooms ...can i ask U why?????) or to launch windows.... so plzz dont try findin faults with someone who has actually helped the society in such a way.....
arrey haan i forgot yeah "BILL GATES" is my idol and i know who i am following .....
At 6:30 AM,
Mohit Singh said…
Well anurag,, nice to c ur thoughts.
i wud like to add one more thing to the cunningness of gates(though i myself use windows only)..... 20% of our internet bandwith is use by microsoft for their own good though u might be using any web browser.
i have changed this bandwidth in my computer to 0%(u need to make some changes in your browser).....
At 11:10 AM,
linusvanpelt said…
its not about the money. there is this thrill in crushing the competition. we all root for the underdogs, mate.
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