Robert Lewko wrote: > Yeah, OK a talented programmer. Yeah he was working on Basic. Whoopee!!! > > Then how is it that when this "talented programmer" gets into the > position of chief architect that he hires David cutler, who was fired > from DEC for incompetence, to architect NT? Then because the > performance of NT 3.51 sucked so bad he hires people to cut the normal > protections of a Multiprocessing OS out to create NT 4.00. He was > having such a hard time with the debugging he gets Nathan Myrvold > involved who promises to help get it degugged, which he does. > > My point is that through this episode, he sneers at the almost 30 years > of computing wisdom and in the process creates a piece of technological > drek, which we are stuck with today as the majority OS on the planet. > And you want me to acknowledge that man for being a wizard and a > visionary?! Sorry No!!! > I did not say that you had to do anything, let alone acknowledge BG as a visionary or wizard. I only meant to say that while I was still in diapers, this guy was actually writing code, and some of it was quite good (according to some sources that I trust). We get no where with the personal attacks. I have never met BG, nor do I particularly care to. I also do not care to call him names, nor do I wish any ill will. Really what I am about is focusing on the things that are important to me, one of which is this whole open source thingy.
I am also not saying that we should ignore MS, they do have the power to lock us out of own computers and our own data. We need to be aware of these dangers as well as the regulatory weapons that they wield. On the bright side, MS never seems to get a break. There are a lot of people keeping an eye on them (I wish the same were true of Apple, the media basically swoons over everything they do, no matter how stupid, crappy, or evil it may be).
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