On 6/17/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:38 pm, Harsh Busa wrote:
On 6/17/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
July 2008 favourite punching bag will resign from M$ as chief software architect. The orginal PR stated that he was resiginig as Chairman. But a clarification from billybaba says that he will remain chairman forever. Hopefully the rest of the garbage will remove itself too and there will be some real architecture in place of spahgetti.
seems like you hate him more than you hate sco .
Not at all. Never met him personally and unlikely to in the forseeable future. so nothing personal about it.
we must thank him for proliferating computers and software to the masses.
Rubbish taiwanse cloners and chip fabs did that.
taking gui to the masses. .. making things simpler that what they would have been
Apple did that
-- apple / xerox invented / built.
with all nerds / geeks and self proclaimed gods of software sitting in labs ... so what if he didnot build everything on his own ... so what he wanted to earn a lot of money . ... a lot more than anyone could possibily think of ...
it is our job to take this vision in a more cleaner way
Are u joking what vision - robbing other's software, writing illegal contracts, being the big bully, writing software with more holes than a sieve. And that is not my concotion - it's recorded in various court judgements across the world.
you have a very very myopic and biased opinion abt sw industry and attributing all the bad things to only 1 company which maynot be correct. yes not all his business practices have been good. neither does everyone else work like angels in utopia.
also i m talking abt the fact about making computing more accessible and simpler. NOT THE WAY IN WHICH IT IS DONE. and thats where you have to understand the meaning of world CLEANER in context to the statement.
You are just being tremondously biased against microsoft which according to me is not correct.
if remember RMS words or Dr Nagarjun, the realm of propritery didnot start with MS, it started with companies trying to monetize on unix, .... other companies just made it worse ...
Do you really think if MS were to close down or opensource everything all the evil would be over ?
... to make computing more affordable and relilable ... to make lif e a lot more easir by improving the interfaces to computers an making them more useful to common man without putting any efforts in learning...
All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his cohorts' methods.
it is high time to grow above all the flame wars and hate mails rather focus on delivering good software for people to use. ....
It was not a flame mail. Just an hopeful statement that things could change for the better. All of which would have been a lot cheaper and easier and reliable had it not been for the aforementioned Billybaba and his crooked methods.
I disagree ... there is more poison in your words than hope.
-- Rgds JTD