Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-08 Thread Lars D. Noodén
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote: [...] The intriguing part of all this to me is watching Microsoft try to flee upmarket (tighter integration e.g Longhorn) and at the same time respond to the disruptive market erosion created by Open Source software. So far we have gone from Open Sourc

Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-08 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 06:57 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > Most interviews with Bill seem a waste of time since he never answers the > questions put to him nor makes any really direct statements. > > He seems to get in the limelight whenever there is something highlighting > non-MS activities in

Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-08 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Most interviews with Bill seem a waste of time since he never answers the questions put to him nor makes any really direct statements. He seems to get in the limelight whenever there is something highlighting non-MS activities in the news or when MS is getting panned. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL

Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I read this interview, at the beginning I thought it wasn't related to technology (there was a similar interview on his life and how he deal with richness). But it seems it has had more of the basic questioning from an end user point of view, on how windows is really a menance to society. -- Alexa

Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
Take a look at this Groklaw article, you'll love it: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050206204640581 This article is just brilliant. One of my all time favourites. Cheers, Daniel. On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:37:30AM +1000, alastair horne wrote: > It nice to see him mention Linux in t

Re: [discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-07 Thread alastair horne
It nice to see him mention Linux in there, although most of what he had to say about Linux was negitive, welll I would not expect any less from the Bill. Made me laugh a few times, when he said something complettely un true. regards alastairh On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:25:50 -0500, Daniel Carrera <[E

[discuss] Interview with Bill Gates

2005-02-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hey, you guys are going to love this interview. For once, an interviewer asked Bill some neat questions: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,340395,00.html Like for instance: SPIEGEL: Microsoft is not only a part of the solution, but also, because of its market power,