Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
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Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
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Re: Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
#2"I know most of you can't stand the guy"
Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
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#3"I know most of you can't stand the guy" Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
Being somewhat more divorced from MS and his charity effort have helped his public image a lot over the last few years but I'm sure we can still remember the days of the slashdot borg icon etc.
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#4"I know most of you can't stand the guy" Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
There are plenty of intelligent and charismatic people who are loathed by many. BillG is amongst them. And bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable in any case.
Where did all his generous cash donations come from? Just being good at selling software?
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#5Bill Gates also shipped the office assistant, windows ME was done mostly under his command and got the attention of the DOJ anaconda on microsoft. And I would recommend against doing this things.
All great people have a track record of good and bad decisions. And you cannot take only the ones you like.
Also I had this pretending to be done project once ... one year later we were still struggling, the customer was losing money daily and I was happy watching my management being roasted on a slow fire for not listening to us lowly techies.
Re: Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
#6"I know most of you can't stand the guy" Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
There are plenty of intelligent and charismatic people who are loathed by many. BillG is amongst them. And bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable in any case. Where did all his generous cash donations come from? Just being good at selling software?
> bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable
Isn't it a bit of a contradiction?
He ran a company that engaged in actions that harmed society. Doesn't he deserve some credit?
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#7"I know most of you can't stand the guy" Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
There are plenty of intelligent and charismatic people who are loathed by many. BillG is amongst them. And bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable in any case. Where did all his generous cash donations come from? Just being good at selling software?
Understanding... how to sell software, the future of personal computing and its scale / importance, how to leverage markets, how to create a standard, how to hire top engineers, the importance of software and the margins in it, how to bootstrap and be financially disciplined, how to bundle, that productivity suites would rule, the way products can reinforce eachother, and on and on and on and on - yeah all that is exactly where his wealth came from.
Re: Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
#8"I know most of you can't stand the guy" Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
Being somewhat more divorced from MS and his charity effort have helped his public image a lot over the last few years but I'm sure we can still remember the days of the slashdot borg icon etc.
People stereotype people. For instance I am just fine with Gates but sort of don't much like Jobs(don't hate though, or maybe I do).
I love my Mac and hate Windows(though MS is credited with many others to put computer in the hands of many people).
I can't stand anything written/said by GrubIgler but that doesn't make them &&&& and morons. They have a huge following, they must be good.
This is how it works.
I am sure all are(were) good.
Re: Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
#9In the same vein as how Microsoft sold IBM an OS that didn't exist, one of my favorite stories is Excite bidding $3 million to be on Netscape's browser circa 1996 or so (while having $1 million in the bank), prodded on by Vinod Khosla (they didn't get the deal, but it's still a great move).
http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2004/09/persistence_pay_1.h...
Re: Ask yourself: what would Bill Gates do?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of intelligent and charismatic people who are loathed by many. BillG is amongst them. And bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable in any case. Where did all his generous cash donations come from? Just being good at selling software?
> bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable Isn't it a bit of a contradiction? He ran a company that engaged in actions that harmed society. Doesn't he deserve some credit?
How did Microsoft harm society?