Re: require Gates to download and use Linux for the next 5 years

[Dan Strychalski <dski@ms17.hinet.net>]

Case Roole <cjr@xs4all.nl> quoted one Bill Gates as saying --

> And people get a kick out of having the source code - gives the
> possibility to play around with that.

Having the source code answers a deep need felt by many human beings.

A programmer I am not, but it bugs the bejeezus out of me when I don't
have at least a vague idea of how something works.

Yes, computers must be for everybody. Doesn't "everybody" include the
technically inclined?

> What we're trying to do with Windows is solve a different kind of problem.
> We're trying to create a system that is much richer in terms of the graphics
> and system management.''

Graphics, graphics, graphics. Ah, the power of pictures. I say lock the
scum up with a computer system so rigged as to be incapable of accepting
or rendering text in any form.

Dan Strychalski