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Why would I be "hatin'" ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Why would I be "hatin'" ?
Exactly. Bill Gates built the world (Windows OS) we work in. So all sound-minded individuals are 100% happy he is the richest person in the world. 
And, anyone else, don't be acting like you are running Linux or some other OS. That's all just lies, because it still isn't:
THe Year of the Linux Desktop
That's not for another 5 or 6 years.
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Don't forget about Ballmer and Allen... MSFT has generated a tremendous amount of wealth.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Errm, I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS. In fact, the core NT based version was written by a team that came in from VMS and NT went on to underpin a lot of what we now know as Windows. As for those of us who still use Linux systems, Bill had very little to do with it.
So, while I still love coding Windows applications, I love it when people are accurate with their facts. The pedant in me gets upset when people play fast and loose like that.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: lot of other people built the Windows OS
No, no. Bill wrote Windows 3.1 by himself while bouncing on his trampoline.
Then, later, some guy copied his code and slapped a new name on it: Voila Linux!
I have my facts straight, according to certain Internet sites. 
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And those sites call Windows 3.1 an OS? 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: And those sites call Windows 3.1 an OS?
You have broken the rules are are now banned from CP.
I told you not to be hatin'!!
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Oh, I'm not hating on Bill. I like Bill.
Your blatant disregard of historical facts however....
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Historical shmistorical... History is all made up as time goes along anyways.
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"Always in motion is the past." -- Yoda
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Always in motion is the past."
Is that really a Yoda quote. If it is, +500 lifepoints for great reference.
If it isn't, +1,000 lifepoints for the creativity of simulating such a realistic Yoda quote.
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I thought he did that while on a plane?!
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Quote: The pedant in me
Pete, we're professional pedants. A programmer who is not a pedant should stop and go sell time shares or something!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: I'm pretty sure that a lot of other people built the Windows OS
Yes but, Bill Gates is substantially responsible for
- Insuring that Windows went forward (his reasons, probably fear, doesn't alter his push.)
- Building Microsoft itself.
- And finally, and most importantly, the mistake by IBM in terms of licensing PC-DOS and then Bill Gates taking advantage of that.
Seems likely that without any of those then world right now would be have a more fragmented market and because of that less volume of usage of software. There would have, of course, been competition between platforms. But that same competition would have reduced the marketplace for applications.
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What's to hate?
He's living proof that the American Dream can work for 0.0000001% of the population.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 0.0000001% of the population
I wish you hadn't used % symbol here because now I'm have to convert the value to decimal...
Let's see...
0.0000001% is 0.000000001
There, that's much easier to read. 
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I prefer hex.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Aye, a hex on all things Microsoft.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What's to hate?
Maybe he thought he was posting on Slashdot, where it's expected of everyone to still hate anything to do with Bill Gates...because of reasons.
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I think the only troll here is Bill. He's all like "Maybe I'll NOT be the richest man this year..." and other rich people are all happy like "Yay, we finally stand a chance to be richest!" and then Bill is just like "LOL, just kidding n00bs!" and then he donates half of his wealth to charity and STILL is the richest person in the world and all the other almost richest people in the world are like "Awww, man that Bill did it again  Bill is like the bully of the richest-people-in-the-world-playground. But I ain't hatin'
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Sander Rossel wrote: then he donates half of his wealth to charity
He's a terrible mean bully giving all that money away like that.  There ought to be a law...
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You do realise that "newton.saber" is Bill Gate's sock account on Code Project don't you?
I claim my £5.
(Edit: typo in formatting)
(Re-edit: and punctuation - note to self, don't post late, after a couple of pints)
(Final edit: and spelling! We're on a roll)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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ITYM "sock-puppet".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That would be the one, I knew I shouldn't have posted so late!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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... and just think, there was a time when I was richer than Bill Gates.
This feat is not that impressive in that I am a bit older than him and was making a living in the real world when he was a poor student.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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