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Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
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Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#12I fell down laughing. Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman top the list? So much for popular votes.
They are a kind of joke candidates, they are not in the profit-making-business however.
Gabe (number 3) on the other-hand seems to be exactly the right kind of leader, he knows Microsoft and has successfully built a business from scratch -- even competing against MSFT. Clearly he is a little too outspoken, who could make Ballmer look like a quiet personality.
Microsoft should probably just aquire Steam, and trial Gabe as CEO.
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#13In all seriousness, Linus might be OK. But RMS is too purist and never practical.
This makes no sense. And one could argue that they both lead big projects. But that doesn't even matter. RMS would not even remotely want to do this job. I doubt Linus Torvalds would like it either.
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#14I have always wondered what would happen if Bill Gates would turn around one day and say 'fuck it, I'm going to open source the whole kit and kaboodle.'
What would it be like? Would people brave trying to fix all the problems in the windows kernel? I wonder what XP source code looks like. How many people would try to fork MS Office? Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free. Would Apple die or become larger? Would malware go through the roof, or be extinguished? What would large corporate license holders do with the savings? (would there even be that many savings in comparison to TCO?)
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#15I have always wondered what would happen if Bill Gates would turn around one day and say 'fuck it, I'm going to open source the whole kit and kaboodle.' What would it be like? Would people brave trying to fix all the problems in the windows kernel? I wonder what XP source code looks like. How many people would try to fork MS Office? Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS pr…
> Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free.
I'm under the impression it's already part of their strategy, and it's probably a cause why most people still use windows. They know they can easily download softwares on torrent websites, and MS is pretty much tolerant about it (as far as it's about individuals, not businesses).
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#16The Internet Strikes Again At first, I laughed, but the more I think about it that may not be as crazy and hilarious as it looks like at the first sight. No matter what you think about Linus and RMS, they both have leadership qualities.
You think they have what it takes to run a "multi-billion dollar profit a quarter" company as diverse as Microsoft?
Right.
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#17Voted for RMS only because VS is the worlds worst editor.
Presume you are referring to Visual Studio. It has a vi emulation plugin if that's what you are into.
Given that one of RMS's baby is Emacs, i find it strange you choose to vote for the fire while hating the frying pan.
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#18I have always wondered what would happen if Bill Gates would turn around one day and say 'fuck it, I'm going to open source the whole kit and kaboodle.' What would it be like? Would people brave trying to fix all the problems in the windows kernel? I wonder what XP source code looks like. How many people would try to fork MS Office? Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS pr…
> Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free. I'm under the impression it's already part of their strategy, and it's probably a cause why most people still use windows. They know they can easily download softwares on torrent websites, and MS is pretty much tolerant about it (as far as it's about individuals, not businesses).
You are mistaking Adobe for MS. MS is going down hard on pirates reselling their stuff to individuals or making it available online.
Also you seem to imply MS let every software be torrented intentionnaly. But MS doesn't publish every software in the world and they aren't responsible, nor should they fight, for other software makers's piracy problems.
It's certainly not part of their strategy. More like a pirate post-fact rationalisation line of thinking.
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#19Voted for RMS only because VS is the worlds worst editor.
Presume you are referring to Visual Studio. It has a vi emulation plugin if that's what you are into. Given that one of RMS's baby is Emacs, i find it strange you choose to vote for the fire while hating the frying pan.
Given the fact that he was going to vote for RMS due to Visual Studio's poor editing qualities, one would assume that this user prefers editing with emacs, no?
Re: Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yet more charismatic than their current ceo ...
No way, Steve Ballmer is the epitome of charisma. :-P Have you not seen the best of Ballmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU
For lack of a translation: "Rampensau" is the german word for that behaviour and does neither imply nor deny charisma.
He is just energetic on stage.