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Why I Hate Microsoft
“A personal, lengthy, but highly articulate outburst”
F.W. van Wensveen: From the title of this paper you may have guessed that I am not very impressed with the guys in Redmond. One might even say that my dislike for Microsoft is a pet hate gone out of control in an almost quixotic fashion. Why is this?
Of course I have been accused of personal antipathy, of being jealous of Bill Gates and his billions, and of being prejudiced against all things Microsoft without any reason whatsoever. None of this is true. I have nothing personal against Bill Gates. Why should I? I don’t know the man, I’ve never met him. I agree with those who say he might be the most successful salesman in history. And I’ve always thought that even one billion in almost any currency is more than I could reasonably spend.
No. It’s rather his business practices, and that of his company, that I am opposed to, for a large and still growing number of reasons, most of which are plain, verifiable facts.
This paper explains why Microsoft is bad for us.
Holly: “I’m the nearest thing you can get to infullible.”
Lister: “Infallible.”
Holly: “Exactly.”
Red Dwarf.
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Add comment January 7, 2009
Escape
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff: “You do not realise your own situation. You are in a prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how to escape? It is necessary to tunnel under a wall. One man can do nothing. But let us suppose there are ten or twenty men – if they work in turn and if one covers another they can complete the tunnel and escape.
Furthermore, no one can escape from prison without the help of those who have escaped before. Only they can say in what way escape is possible or can send tools, files or whatever may be necessary.”
Lister: [Moving to the cell window] “There’s got to be a way out. There hasn’t been a prison built that could hold Derek Custer. Why don’t we scrape away this mortar here, slide one of these bricks out, then using a rope weaved from strands of this hessian, rip up a kind of a pulley system so that when a guard comes in, using it as a trip wire, gets laid out, and we put Rimmer in the guard’s uniform, he leads us out, we steal some swords, and fight our way back to the ‘bug…”
Kryten: “Or we could use the teleporter.”
Red Dwarf.
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Add comment November 22, 2008
