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> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Bill Gates doesn't play monopoly? Laugh? I nearly died
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>>| Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's High Command, received the same
>>| treatment, with one softball question after another. ...
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/01/microsoft.billgates
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> Philip Toynbee famously observed that if you dropped an atom bomb on
> Twickenham during the Varsity match, the prospects for fascism in
> Britain would be set back by two generations. An analogous thought
> struck me watching coverage of the D6 'All Things Digital' conference
> last week. A neutron bomb would have wiped out the entire high
> commands of the US technology and media industries - while usefully
> leaving the premises intact.
>
> <laughter>
>
> And look who organized the thing:
>
> D6 was this year's version of the annual media-tech gabfest organised
> by Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's veteran technology
> commentator, and his partner in sentimentality, Kara Swisher. The
> event took place at the Four Seasons Aviara Resort just outside San
> Diego, where attendees enjoy 'casual elegance in a breathtaking
> location accented by wildlife and wildflowers' for a conference fee
> just a tad short of the GNP of Rwanda.
>
> It looks like a safari where the customers are armed with Nerf guns,
> shooting at slow-moving, aging rhinos.
>
> I like this little comparsion concerning the "open-source crapware" that
> that idiot, DFS, so reviles:
>
> Their browser, Internet Explorer, eventually gained 98 per cent of
> the market and - in the absence of competition - remained stagnant
> for half a decade
>
> . . .
>
> Netscape released the code of its browser into the public domain and
> created the Mozilla Foundation to foster open-source development of
> the code. In due course, the Mozilla community released Firefox, a
> terrific open-source browser that knocked spots off Internet Explorer
> and has already captured nearly 30 per cent of the market in Europe.
> It also drove Microsoft finally to upgrade Internet Explorer in an
> attempt to halt the erosion in its market share.
>
> Finally, will Mossberg finally emerge from his dotage?
>
> The foundation plans to host a worldwide 'Download Day' following the
> official release of Firefox 3. The number of total unique downloads
> will be submitted for evaluation and potential inclusion in the
> Guinness World Records. If they succeed, will the Firefox developers
> be invited to 'All Things Digital' next year? Don't hold your breath:
> the WSJ doesn't do open source.
>
> Nope. That safari is only for the rich bwanas.
Yes, I'm not sure if I mentioned it here or somewhere else, but all that
Windows ME3 vapourware demo (advert) was done by the Fascist press of the USA
(United States of Advertising as some call it).
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