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Re: Post-Gates: How Apple and OSS Are Making For a Better Microsoft
Posted by: Rob Enderle 2008-06-30 07:13:48

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A lot of us are focused on Microsoft and Bill Gates this month as Bill's last day at the company he founded and ran to dominance passed last Friday. I've met Bill several times but only really once spoken to him. From a personal aspect, he has mostly been cordial, and he once personally came to my rescue back when my career as an independent analyst first started, something I'll never forget. Something else I'll never forget was the Windows 95 launch, which in my mind and evidently his, was the high point for Microsoft.

Didn't realize this was a humor mag...
Posted by: insight2atlas 2008-06-30 16:15:37 In reply to: Rob Enderle

"Microsoft's relationships with ... Samba are poster children for how ... to work together." Was this satire? Three years of defiance of a court order, and 300 million euros in fines, to get Microsoft to cooperate does not signify a spirit of working together.
The description of Microsoft Bob is too choice to be anything but satire.
You didn't realize that Apple's OSX is based on open source? Really? The Mach kernel? With satire like this, who needs a day job? Quit yours now, man.