Comments on: Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques

By: dv cool fuel

dv cool fuel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:28:23 +0000

gee these guys are like regular drug pushers aren’t they, give free stuff until your hooked and then pay you pay though the nose

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:33:07 +0000

Any CIO who choose to offshore such services would be seen as insane by some. There’s no reason why academic mail services, for example, can be managed locally and away from surveillance and dependency on third parties. But that’s another story altogether…

By: Finland calling

Finland calling — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:15:02 +0000

PM Matti Vanhanen’s US Tour Ends on Tech Note:

http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id80261.html

I wonder why they didn’t offer Google Apps at all or was it intentionally left out to give the spot in headlights for live@edu?

By: Pro-business == anti-MS

Pro-business == anti-MS — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:57:14 +0000

Here’s the quote, which is from 1998, along with the follow up:

As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html?legacy=cnet
Source: Speech at the University of Washington, as reported by News.com, 1998

“It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not,” Gates says.
“How Microsoft conquered China” CNN Money.
David Kirkpatrick, 17 Jul 2007.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/index.htm