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Bill Gates to be Knighted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-thought-you-had-to-at-least-be-british dept.

gexen writes "According to an article in the Telegraph Bill Gates is going to be knighted by the Queen of England for "services to the global enterprise." She's just handing them out like candy these days!"

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  1. Piffle by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 1, Redundant
    All those things people are crediting to Gates here were happening already, and would have happened without Gates. He and Microsoft were perpetually Johhny-Come-Latelys in the computer world. MS succeeded because corporate America, for better or worse, settle on IBM (the old no one ever got fired for buying IBM attitude). MS rode the coattails.

    The only "clever" thing he did was buy QDOS and foist it as a useable system to IBM, and somehow talk IBM into letting MS retain the rights. And to this day the 8.3 naming system lurks underneath everything (yeah, even in XP), showing up unexpctedly and at the most annoying moments.

    As for his chairty, more wealthy people give to charity than you seem to think. Most of them just don't feel the need to issue press releases when they do so, or name their caritable donations after themselves.

    But then againt knighthoods were once bestowed for those who could gather the most swag and booty for king and country, so maybe this *is* appropriate.

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    --- Ban humanity.