I Love Microsoft
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
sasha winston wrote:
Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free?
yes (assuming "wld" = "would")
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
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sasha winston wrote:
Would it really be fun to program when you knew the software would be available for free?
Sure. Just wait until after I sold this ingenious software idea for a few millions!
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sasha winston wrote:
Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free?
yes (assuming "wld" = "would")
Seconded.
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
Sure. Just imagine if you were the guy that invented the idea that you should pay for software, because then it'll be way better than all this free crap everyone is writing! You'd be the Bill Gates of that alternate universe! Marc
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
sasha winston wrote:
program when you knew the software wld be available for free
That's what I'm doing now.
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
also, it would come as a surprise to IBM, DEC, AT&T, and the dozens of other computer companies that had been around for decades before Microsoft was founded that Bill Gates invented the idea of charging for software.
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
sasha winston wrote:
Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free?
Much more than it is now. If everything's free then I wouldn't have to do some of the projects I do just to keep the cash flow. I'd work on the fun and interesting projects, only.
sasha winston wrote:
Bill Gates did a terrific job.
I thought Bill Gates wasn't even born when trade and currency were invented.
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sasha winston wrote:
Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free?
Much more than it is now. If everything's free then I wouldn't have to do some of the projects I do just to keep the cash flow. I'd work on the fun and interesting projects, only.
sasha winston wrote:
Bill Gates did a terrific job.
I thought Bill Gates wasn't even born when trade and currency were invented.
We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!
rastaVnuce wrote:
I'd work on the fun and interesting projects, only.
Of course, you'd be flipping burgers for a living since there would be no money to pay you for programming, but at least the coding would be rewarding, right? :)
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
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If software was free we'd all be picking carrots in a field.
Two heads are better than one.
nope. i'd be a chemist.
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nope. i'd be a chemist.
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
sasha winston wrote:
Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and a company needs to make a profit. Would you dabble in the muck for sheer fun? I guess that depends if you need the brass to pay the bills :)
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
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sasha winston wrote:
Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free?
yes (assuming "wld" = "would")
Chris Losinger wrote:
yes
Send me free code plz. :)
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Chris Losinger wrote:
yes
Send me free code plz. :)
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So.. he blames MS for selling their software? He's not cynical enough. And you only like programming because you get paid? I suggest you become an accountant.
harold aptroot wrote:
I suggest you become an accountant.
Being Bill's son, he doesn't need a job, I suppose. :)
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If software was free we'd all be picking carrots in a field.
Two heads are better than one.
I read that before looking at who the poster was. It was a surprise to see that it was you because I had assumed it was from Alison! :laugh:
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I was at a technology conference recently when a microsoft hater began talking about how microsoft wld soon crumble and how google would win in the ongoing Google vs Microsoft war. His beef with microsoft was "everything they produced was for sale". This got me thinking. Imagine a world where every software was free, and google the free search engine was free to advertisers, and Facebook the free social service was free to advertisers as well, and all the games were free....and the list goes on. Wld it really be fun to program when you knew the software wld be available for free? Bill Gates did a terrific job.
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Would the MS hater have been appeased if MS gave some stuff away for free? Or did he just hate MS and needed to rationalise?
eslsys wrote:
if MS gave some stuff away for free
You mean like this?: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/[^]
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