From: dmatiske@virgil.helios.nd.edu (david matiskella) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 18:00:08 GMT
In article <BRIAN.92Nov29082115@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu>, brian@dsm.fordham.edu (Brian Downing) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov29.023714.16318@leland.Stanford.EDU>
|> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
|>
|> > Bill Gates obviously has some talents that most of the rest
|> > of us don't have. He might not be the hacker you are or I
|> > am, but he is one hell of a better marketer. And that is a
|> > much more difficult and much more valuable talent.
|>
|> I beg to differ. What Gates does simply requires having no integrity.
|> He's no different from the local street-corner drug dealers here in
|> New York City. Sales and profit ALWAYS come first. The quality MUST
|> be kept at a minimum in order to maximize profit. They also both try
|> to get'em hooked so they'll keep coming back for more. Anyone
|> participating in the use of DOS,Heroin or Cocaine is simply not
|> getting the most out of life possible.
|>
|> ;)
|>
|>
|>
|> --
|>
|> Brian...
|>
|> brian downing@->fordham university, nyc ny
|> brian@dsm.fordham.edu bdowning@mary.fordham.edu
I think you are a little harsh on Bill Gates. The guy was a great programmer. HOw many people do you know who have written a basic in 3k? In addition look at the computers available when MSDOS was written. Sure Unix was available but it was not going to run on the available micros. Another thing to consider is that MSDOS was written very quickly. I keep hearing how great Herd is going to be but when was the idea first proposed? I remember hearing about it just after the macintosh was released eight years
ago. Of course if you can spend several years designing something you are going to come up with a better system than if you design and build it in one year.