[Am-info] Gates MUST be smokin dope again!!

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:26:17 -0400, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>Fred Miller wrote:
>
>>WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD LINUX? NOT BILL GATES
>>
>>Microsoft founder Bill Gates told an audience at the Computer History
>>Museum that he is not afraid of Linux, and that he believes the open
>>source operating system will eventually go the way of OS/2.
>>
>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18855
>>
>>  
>>
>No.  Linux is not supported by cowards.  IBM executives showed the 
>deepest cowardice when they surrendered OS/2 to Microsoft and betrayed 
>OS/2 users, customers, developers and partners.  Linux supporters won't 
>do that.
>
>And the PC press won't dare support Windows now that it's known that it 
>is full of vulnerabilities, bugs and holes.
>
>OS/2 was more solid than Windows too, but the Press wasn't afraid to 
>blatantly mis-represent OS/2's benefits.  They won't do that with Linux.
>
>Gates is wrong.
>
>John

John,

Glad to see you're still here.  You are correct about Windows, The Press and 
the determination of the Linux folks.

Yet Gates is happily riding his runaway train and I don't think it will run out
of gas for a while.  Linux is still having a struggle to derail Windows on the
desktop.

I've mostly moved to eComStation and I hope that it will have plenty of fuel, 
at least support-wise, and will remain virus-free like OS/2 for many more 
years to come.  For those people who talk with me who've experienced first 
hand the unpleasant Windows' vulnerabilities on their PCs, I first suggest they
try eCS.  If they don't want to, I then recommend to them that they get a Macintosh 
unless they're a propeller-head like me.  Cheaper in the long run, I tell them.

I'd love to see Michael Moore do a documentary on Gates & company.

Erick