Look, I don't like what Bill Gates is doing at all. I think that he has lost touch with basic humanity due to his financial success.
But this is a pretty simplistic take. To imply that Novell failed simply because of a marketing claim Microsoft made, is to overlook many other factors in a very competitive and dynamic environment. I'm not going to rewrite the history of the OS wars of the 90's here. But I am old enough to have participated in them, both outside of Microsoft, and within Microsoft. And I can tell you this is a simple take.
The tech industry was and still is very cutthroat. This was not something that only Bill Gates did. Look at the history of IBM, Oracle, Sun, Google, Facebook, on and on. You will see even more egregious acts.
Bill Gates today is a problem for sure. But the bigger problem is the concentration of power in the form of extreme wealth, in the hands of a few oligarchs whose hubris knows no bounds.
First, thanks for your comment. I indeed simplified the battle for the dominance on the network side, and there were a lot of things that took place which expanding about would not have made sense to people.
However, I stand by my claim that Microsoft has used its dominance in the desktop domain to push their server solution, and used lies and manipulation as part of a corporate strategy. They used false statements, period. I've been in Microsoft presentations which was pushing the C2 certification. I've seen how MS used pricing tactics to push a bad product at a lower cost, then after the customers moved away from Novell NetWare increasing the prices steeply. I've seen a lot of dirty business, and you cannot exclude the fact that Bill Gates was the mastermind in it. I recall a personal conversation I had with someone with a senior role in Microsoft (Marketing) in Israel, and Gates was NOT a nice person to work for, more of a brutal person you don't want to challenge or don't follow his direction, regardless of your own moral compass or your technical speciality.
Gates is part of a lineage of Eugenics, he is one, he does not see people as being who carry a divine spark but as objects.
He was, is, and will be a danger to humanity. That danger has only increased in time, and his behaviour, at its core, has never changed.
No doubt Microsoft used the desktop dominance to push the server. Why wouldn't they? IBM was working on the reverse. Use mainframe dominance to push their desktop. Oracle used their database dominance to push into ERP then to cloud computing. Sun tried to leverage Java to control the early internet. And all of these also made many false claims. That is a fact. Google used search to dominate advertising, eventually making every user's data a product to be sold. Amazon used dominance in book sales to dominate online commerce and eventually cloud infrastructure, also infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon have more wealth and control over every aspect of our lives than any dictator could every dream. They all lied to varying degrees to attain this success.
Bill Gates' actions through his foundation work has been horrible. I agree. I can't read his mind to know what he thinks of people, but I agree with you that his actions are dangerous.
My bigger point is this world has created a oligarchy that includes Bill Gates, but is composed of many more like him. Bill is an inherently unlikable person. But their are many others doing as much or more damage, who are overlooked when we focus in so closely on one.
I recon he learnt about the computer virus, and though it was a good idea.
A digitally constructed virus is not something that exists in real life. We have been confabulated to associate a computer virus which appears real, yet it was constructed deliberately to allow an access point to inject code to corrupt software.
So, a new industry was borne called “Anti-Virus Software”.
In virology it’s the same MO think “Furin Cleavage “a special cleavage site or receptor” You would have heard about ACE2 Receptor” The Anti-virus software here is called a vaccine.
My opinion of course, I wouldn't be surprised though, looking at how evil his mind is.
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Look, I don't like what Bill Gates is doing at all. I think that he has lost touch with basic humanity due to his financial success.
But this is a pretty simplistic take. To imply that Novell failed simply because of a marketing claim Microsoft made, is to overlook many other factors in a very competitive and dynamic environment. I'm not going to rewrite the history of the OS wars of the 90's here. But I am old enough to have participated in them, both outside of Microsoft, and within Microsoft. And I can tell you this is a simple take.
The tech industry was and still is very cutthroat. This was not something that only Bill Gates did. Look at the history of IBM, Oracle, Sun, Google, Facebook, on and on. You will see even more egregious acts.
Bill Gates today is a problem for sure. But the bigger problem is the concentration of power in the form of extreme wealth, in the hands of a few oligarchs whose hubris knows no bounds.
Hey John,
First, thanks for your comment. I indeed simplified the battle for the dominance on the network side, and there were a lot of things that took place which expanding about would not have made sense to people.
However, I stand by my claim that Microsoft has used its dominance in the desktop domain to push their server solution, and used lies and manipulation as part of a corporate strategy. They used false statements, period. I've been in Microsoft presentations which was pushing the C2 certification. I've seen how MS used pricing tactics to push a bad product at a lower cost, then after the customers moved away from Novell NetWare increasing the prices steeply. I've seen a lot of dirty business, and you cannot exclude the fact that Bill Gates was the mastermind in it. I recall a personal conversation I had with someone with a senior role in Microsoft (Marketing) in Israel, and Gates was NOT a nice person to work for, more of a brutal person you don't want to challenge or don't follow his direction, regardless of your own moral compass or your technical speciality.
Gates is part of a lineage of Eugenics, he is one, he does not see people as being who carry a divine spark but as objects.
He was, is, and will be a danger to humanity. That danger has only increased in time, and his behaviour, at its core, has never changed.
Ehden
No doubt Microsoft used the desktop dominance to push the server. Why wouldn't they? IBM was working on the reverse. Use mainframe dominance to push their desktop. Oracle used their database dominance to push into ERP then to cloud computing. Sun tried to leverage Java to control the early internet. And all of these also made many false claims. That is a fact. Google used search to dominate advertising, eventually making every user's data a product to be sold. Amazon used dominance in book sales to dominate online commerce and eventually cloud infrastructure, also infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon have more wealth and control over every aspect of our lives than any dictator could every dream. They all lied to varying degrees to attain this success.
Bill Gates' actions through his foundation work has been horrible. I agree. I can't read his mind to know what he thinks of people, but I agree with you that his actions are dangerous.
My bigger point is this world has created a oligarchy that includes Bill Gates, but is composed of many more like him. Bill is an inherently unlikable person. But their are many others doing as much or more damage, who are overlooked when we focus in so closely on one.
John Opalko, I totally agree with you! Thank you for your comment!
I recon he learnt about the computer virus, and though it was a good idea.
A digitally constructed virus is not something that exists in real life. We have been confabulated to associate a computer virus which appears real, yet it was constructed deliberately to allow an access point to inject code to corrupt software.
So, a new industry was borne called “Anti-Virus Software”.
In virology it’s the same MO think “Furin Cleavage “a special cleavage site or receptor” You would have heard about ACE2 Receptor” The Anti-virus software here is called a vaccine.
My opinion of course, I wouldn't be surprised though, looking at how evil his mind is.