Posted on 04/18/2006 11:10:11 PM PDT by HAL9000
This is nice Bill "BSOD" Gates & COMMIES!
Did he happen to explain that the first package of, say Windows 2008, that goes out the door, costs him $10 mill, the second one costs him 15 cents, and the millionth one costs him, guess what, 15 cents!
I can't totally complain about that, he gave NYC a fortune for schools, so on that I'd cut him slack.
Not that I recall, ironically, this morning I got some kind of NY claims form to collect money from my states lawsuit against Gates.
Go Figure.
Blocking 'forbidden' words on MSN accounts in China.
Partnering with Chinese communist elite and making them millionaires.
Probably giving China the same favors he does our own government, back door access to computers running his OS.
One of the worlds top ten worst dictators.
It's pretty obvious, after reading all the sorts of garbage posted on Linux threads. After all, as long as MS is making $$$$$ in Red China, to heck with anything else
I think it sucks,
Bull. You've even said countless times over the last umpteenth months that Linux in other nations' hands is evil because it's free.
But continue, O master troll...
"Gerstner and Jiang 'Old Friends' Kiss in New York - 11/02/97" ...
What your article fails to mention is that IBM has done business in China (and other locales around the world) since the early 1900's--since before Mao; and that they (IBM) currently have engineers and consultants in over 170 countries.
In fact, IBM is one of only a handful of American companies that can continuously trace their history back into the 19th century--(the other one I can think of offhand being Union Pacific).
Allowing everyone in the world free copies of U.S. technology IS obviously foolish. That's why the Chinese are standardizing their government by edict on these free copies of Linux, not Microsoft, as my link above shows. Gates is at least trying to earn some dollars when U.S. software goes overseas, yet you seem to prefer giving the stuff away to Hu's communist government for free. At least you've never complained the countless times I've pointed out to you the Chinese take a free copy of Red Hat Linux, from North Carolina, and rename it "Red Flag" in China. For some reason that's just fine to you "open sourcers".
Clever.
What is the basis for the troll's hatred of IBM? Could it be that it once worked for the company and was fired for being a troll? How's your discrimination suit going troll?
So, you're in favor of selling technology to enemy countries so that we'll at least get money for it instead of having their spies ferret it out without paying us anything?
Now that's funny.
(sarc)Yeah, you really make sense there...(/sarc)
Unfortunately, you don't realize you just proved my point.
No, I don't want any U.S. technology going to China or other communists governments, AT ALL. But especially not FOR FREE, as you open source proponents seem to prefer. How hard is that to understand?
Most children could understand my links, but since you can't, I'll spell them out to you.
IBM's CEO was kissing up to the Chicoms almost 10 if not more years ago. You saw the link.
Now, according to the another link, 80% of the Chinese government computers are all running Linux, not so coincedentally a product IBM is furiously pushing these days.
The Chinese aren't running many Microsoft's products on their goverment computers, they actually have mandates against them, see the links again. Gates is just trying to get his foot in the door, but IBM apparently already owns the building.
Gates is a bootlicking toady for the Chicoms. Agreed.(And this dinner at Gates' house before going to DC and the White House is a sly slap in the face at the President.) The Chinese are also making noise about getting people to learn Chinese...they'd like to change the world's lingua franca from English to Chinese. Early this am, NPR droned on and on about Gates' dinner, music in the trees, one hundred guests strolling the lawn, drinking cocktails...just like the Chamber of Commerce. (The music was dumb. Toasts were dumber.) Gates draped the Chinese flag all over Microsoft.
No but Im pretty damn sure if this was an article about Linux and Hu sitting down to dinner it would not take you hours and a ping to show your face..
As it was aptly noted on another thread: He prefers whores the tramps..
Allowing everyone in the world free copies of U.S. technology IS obviously foolish. That's why the Chinese are standardizing their government by edict on these free copies of Linux, not Microsoft, as my link above shows.
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