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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: mm on December 11, 2001, 10:24:25 AM
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quote from anonymous
"all gates is is a brilliant business man
lets look at ms\'s great inovations
Close Combat
Popular game purchased from Atomic Games
Flight Simulator
Purchased from the Bruce Artwick Organisation
Age of Empires
Collabaration with Ensemble studios(Gopal R S)
FrontPage
Microsoft\'s HTML editor was purchased from Vermeer Technologies in 1996
FoxPro
This database application came along with Microsoft\'s purchase of Fox Software in 1986
Internet Explorer
Desperate to play catch-up in the fast-moving Internet world Microsoft licensed code from Spyglass Inc one of the two licensees of the
original Mosaic code base in 1995 and called it MSIE Microsoft then proceeded to distribute MSIE for free denying Spyglass substantial
royalties for their key contribution to the product
MS-DOS
The original Microsoft cash cow this CPM clone then called Q-DOS was purchased from the Seattle Computer Company in 1981 Microsoft then
proceeded to thwart Seattle Computer\'s license rights to the product The tiny company sued Microsoft and prevailed in court
Object Linking Environment OLE
Microsoft settled a suit with Wang Labs over patent infringement code portions of OLE which is also the heart of Microsoft\'s ActiveX
PowerPoint
This presentation software package was renamed and re branded after Microsoft\'s purchase of Forethought Inc in 1987
SQL Server
This important database product is based on code purchased from Sybase in 1988
Visual Basic
Ruby the foundation for Microsoft\'s highly important Visual Basic product was purchased from Cooper Software in 1991
Visual C
Microsoft purchased the Lattice C code compiler which became Visual C Microsoft\'s software development environment
Visual SourceSafe
Purchased from OneTree Software Shortly after OneTree\'s SourceSafe was released Microsoft preannounced a similar application called Microsoft Delta which failed to sell Microsoft then purchased OneTree and renamed SourceSafe as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Windows
Technologies used in Windows multitasking came to Microsoft with their purchase of Dynamical Systems in 1986 Portions of the interface were licensed from Apple Computer also in 1986
XENIX
Microsoft\'s version of Unix was actually written under contract by the Santa Cruz Operation(SCO)"
wow...
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lol mm
you forgot to add that the xbox controller is a rip-off form the DC one ;)
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No one still seems to know why they make so much money if they can\'t come up with their own ideas. ;)
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No-one realises that someone has to go in behind enemy lines and "aquire" them idea\'s,.......
all i have to say is BAD Bill Bad your last check bounced !
And expect to see Microsoft RPG online highly modeled on Final fansasy 11.
Bloody Square they upped their security sine the last time I was in, now I have German shepherd bites all over my Bum.
;)
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Bill Gates is a mastermind, he obviously doesnt care if its his ideas or not he is a f*cking billionaire, do u think he cares, i wouldnt, im saying he is cool but he aint no dummy
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Originally posted by mjps21983
Bill Gates is a mastermind, he obviously doesnt care if its his ideas or not he is a f*cking billionaire, do u think he cares, i wouldnt, im saying he is cool but he aint no dummy
I was just going to say he is VERY Smart and not TOTALLY inteligent.
Smart in the way he obtains everything
and Not inteligent, for not developing his own from scratch.
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Originally posted by ooseven
I was just going to say he is VERY Smart and not TOTALLY inteligent.
Smart in the way he obtains everything
and Not inteligent, for not developing his own from scratch.
Its all good.
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Originally posted by mm
Age of Empires
That\'s good enuff for me :)
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Bill Gates is an incredible business man. He knows what is going to be the next big thing and makes sure he is in on it before it gets really popular. If their is something wrong with that then their is something wrong with almost every Founder of every company. Gates just has a better batting percentage than the other losers. He may not be one of the most popular people but he IS one of the greatest of our time.
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Originally posted by Gohan
He may not be one of the most popular people but he IS one of the greatest of our time.
He\'s rich, but I fail to see him as a great man
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I\'m with ddaryl. He\'s a nobody to me.
He has the oppotunity to be the greatest man alive. He could give away 95% of his money to charity and still be filthy rich. If he did something like that then he would be the happiest man alive. Think of all the lives he could save. Who gives a **** about getting a new operating system when you could be saving millions of lives. That would make a person truley happy.
He\'s just greedy.
Go listen to "Soon Forget" by Pearl Jam. Eddie wrote that song about Bill Gates. Money doesnt bring happiness
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Money doesnt bring happiness
If money doesn\'t bring happiness, poverty sure as hell won\'t. ;)
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He is one of the greatest business men of our time, you cannot deny that. If you can, then I suggest you take the computer you are using to post on this forum with and throw it out the window and move to a place where you live in a cave, due to the fact that Gates ushered in the era of home computer use to the tenth degree and the software industry (he was one of the first to speak out about having to pay for software, instead of "borrowing" aka stealing it). If it wasn\'t for Gates the computer industry and in large the enviroment we live in would not be the way it is today. Bill Gates is a brilliant business man who jumps on things that are going to be popular and uses them for his own company. What is wrong with that? All companies do it, Gates just does it more and better than the rest.
As for the comments about how he could save lives and so on, I truly doubt most people in his position would give 95% of their wealth to charity. Not to mention he has donated money to charitys countless times and if I am not mistaken even set up a charity fund (I may be wrong on that one). Don\'t expect someone to give 95% of their wealth they worked for to countless strangers.
By the way - before I get accused of being a MsWhore, I don\'t even use Windows 90 percent of the time, I use an iMac and I detest the Xbox at this current time.
;)
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As you might say mm,
*sigh*
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I know that he gives a lot of money to charity. But about my comments about him giving up 95% of his wealth, he would still be filty rich. I know that most people in his situation wouldnt do it, but you would have the opportunity of being the happiest person alive
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Originally posted by ddaryl
He\'s rich, but I fail to see him as a great man
he gave $5 million in money and $5 million in software to the WTC fund, but spends $500 million on XBOX advertisements.
Yup, great man.
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The money he gives to charity serves 2 purposes, and 2 purposes only.
1. Tax writeoff
2. Good PR, expecially at a time when he\'s catching hell for breakin AntiTrust laws and some of his shreweder buisness moves are becomming public knowlage.
He\'s not a great man. He\'s a ruthless, sneaky, unsympathetic, evil, backstabbing, son of a *****, and unfortunately those are key traits to being a successful buisnessman. While I agree that he\'s pushed the industry, I\'d rather he didn\'t dominate it. I\'d rather see the computer industry grow slowly with plenty of competition and new ideas that spur innovation and choice rather than a fast growing industry where it\'s either M$\'s way or no way.
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I think bullets are afraid of BillGates.. I\'m AMAZED one hasn\'t managed to make it into his head.
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Wow, I can\'t believe the hatred has been brought to this level.
I think maybe we have met the anti-christ in Bill Gates.
Ace
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oh he\'s just pissed cause they banned nun-chakus and GTA3 in oz
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Oh, that\'s cool. but at least you just want to piss in his coffee. :laughing:
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Meh. This thread sucks.
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Everything Gates does is designed to dig himself and his company deeper into consumer\'s lives and privacy so that eventually everyone will have to buy their software, hardware, dogfood, and children from him.
As far as I\'m concerned he ain\'t nothing special. There\'ll be another one follow him after he\'s gone.
Viva la resistance.
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Ohh, i don\'t hate mister gates.. He\'s done nothing to piss me off. I\'m just amazed he hasn\'t pissed off someone else and got blown away for it.
as for GT3.. I can still get it. So it doesn\'t bother me that it\'s been banned here. It\'s a shame.. But doesn\'t bother me.. Maybe a 18+ rating system would have been better.