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He’s EVIL INCARNATE !!
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What would one expect from the world’s leading purveyor of virii?
Choose wisely.
For those who want to read some history on Microsoft, they basically bought the rights to an already existing DOS based operating system from a guy named Tim Paterson and re-branded it as their own. That's how they got their software on the first IBM personal computers and the rest is history.
Even when they laid a graphical interface on top of it (Windows), for years it was still DOS underneath doing all the heavy lifting. Even with Windows 95, it was still easier (for those who knew DOS well) to open a command prompt and get things done that way.
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I suspect that most tech people suffer to some degree from Asperger’s syndrome or some other form of autism. In fields like programming and computer engineering this give them an advantage of a narrow focus and isolation from distractions in an office setting.
As they have advanced in a very lucrative sector of the economy they have attained greater influence and power, but they have not expanded their understanding, or even respect for other people. They remain isolated and insulated, spinning idealistic and mechanistic schemes of how society should be run. These become dogma, and they are increasingly able to impose this on the rest of us, thanks to their affluence.
I dont mean to insult; everyone is a mix of talents and deficits, and I fear the people with the greatest influence on our society are the very ones least capable of of running it.
Does the Bible mention Bill Gates? ... ‘and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail’