We always forget that the real promise of the Internet was multimedia content. This interview with Bill Gates simply talking over a few pictures from Microsoft’s history is so simple and direct that it’s almost charming. Say what you want about MS, but Microsoft and Apple are two sides of the same coin (maybe say Linux is the infinitesimal space between them) and one couldn’t exist without the other.
Yeah, sure they wouldn’t have existed if all of the OSs weren’t there… or maybe they would just be something else. The nature of the competitive business have really modelled the three OSs in such a way that today I really consider all of them highly usable. And I think that Linux should be put nearer to them, not just in the space between the two sides of the coin. Maybe just a molecule-layer behind them, because it really deserves it’s space there.
Gates knows absolutely nothing about the ‘Net. He did his best to kill the internet & make his own closed, proprietary version of it. Microsoft is the opposite of the internet — and Gates has never done anything innovative. Yes, he made a lot of money. Oh, got viruses on your computer? you’re running windows.