[Wolves] Bill Gates

[Chris Procter]

Would this not have happened anyway? There were many home computers before
windows (amiga, sinclair etc) and there's always Apple. If it hadn't have
been for Bill we'd still have home PCs (and maybe still a monopoly player),
"computers for the rest of us" was an idea whose time had come.


chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Jono Bacon [mailto:jonobacon at yahoo.com]
Sent: 26 January 2004 16:17
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Bill Gates


Heya,

Although I am no fan of Bill, one thing I do credit
him with is the fact that we have a computer in
everyone home and desktop. Irrespective of whether he
runs a nasty monopolistic corp, the availability of
some MS software has made computers more accessible,
which in turn will have put Linux in the hands of more
people due to the fact that computers are so
prominant.

I am not saying he should be fecking knighted though.
:/

  Jono

--- David Goodwin <david at openminds.co.uk> wrote:
> Simon Burke wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I know its a sacreligious name to mention here,
> but still i needed to 
> > point something out:
> > 
> > http://news.deviantart.com/article/12753/
> > 
> > I cant believe that Bill Gates is to recieve a
> KBE, Bill Gates Knight 
> > Commander of the British Empire just does not
> sound right?
> > 
> 
> If I remember correctly, wasn't one of the royal web
> servers on RedHat? 
> Does this mean the Queen is after a discount and
> migration to windows?
> 
> :-/
> 
> David.
> 
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