Bill Joy's Takes on C#

f00zbll writes: "Cnet is running an article by Bill Joy on security and how it relates to C# and Microsoft at large. BJ quotes verbatim: 'C# provides the ability to write unsafe code. In unsafe code it is possible to declare and operate on pointers, to perform conversions between pointers and integral types, to take the address of variables, and so forth.'"

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Re:Sun shouldn't be complacent

[gillbates]

Gates could literally turn out to be the most significant philanthropist in the history of the world. They're giving so much money that you can almost see a chunk of what you spend on MS going to a good cause.

Who said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on."?

What people fail to realize is that Bill Gates' money was obtained through immoral and oppressive means. One might as well count the drug lords in South America as philanthropists as well.

The fact that Bill Gates is giving away money doesn't make him generous. Were he a benevolent individual, he wouldn't have drummed Microsoft's competitors out of business, or artificially raised the price of Microsoft software. Do you really believe that the man who claimed that church was a waste of time is giving money for purely altruistic reasons? Isn't it more likely that he's doing these things to make he and Microsoft look good?

In case you didn't know, the second quote is from Jesus Christ (Mark 12:43).