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Gates: Open Source Kills Jobs
theodp writes "On the Malaysian leg of a whirlwind Asian tour, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates voiced his concerns over the growing goodwill towards open source, especially in Asia, emphasizing how damaging open source software can be. 'If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a day job. If you want to give it away, you work on it at night,' he said. Gates, who apparently has never contended with the horrors of a VB upgrade, when on to say that '[Open source] doesn't guarantee upward compatibility.'"
I read that as Gates kills Jobs (Steve)
But default installations of his company's closed-source software kills systems.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
Apple to remain unaffected, release 35" computer screen.
bill gates would rather us have 'open sores' that 'open source'.
Visual Basic generates jobs. The kinds where real professionals are called in to fix a big mess.
The writing is on the wall. In 10 years he will be eating out of a dumpster, all because of open-source software.
Gates: "Open Source kills MY job."
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
It does kill the job market for MCSEs.
My rights don't need management.
Oh no! Poor Steve Jobs. We always knew Open Source would be his downfall, but could not have known it would literally kill him.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
This is a perfect example of a disruptive technology. Sure, OSS takes jobs from Microsoft, but it adds jobs elsewhere in the economy - everywhere someomone wants to develop something that needs an OS but doesn't want to pay MS for it.
Buggy whip makers were put out of work by the automobile. But the smart buggy whip makers turned to making sex toys. Sex always sells!
Give him a break -- at least he spelled "Gandhi" correctly, which more than 80% of the people waving that quote around like they just discovered it are capable of doing.
But but .... volunteer work _does_ cause unemployment for those who would wish to do those jobs for pay.
That's why I leave my grocery cart in the parking lot rather than return it to the store!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Great. Even our quotes are getting outsourced to India.
> Buggy whip makers were put out of work by the automobile
-nod- Microsoft suffers from the same problem - there's just no market for their buggy products anymore.
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"Ignorance is knowledge."
Therefore knowledge is bliss.
It makes sense, so we can't acquit!
i see another parallel .. isn't it a bit like war creates construction job ? break it today, so that we'll have some work for us tomorrow.
Yeah, those evil open-source software companies are wrecking the industry. Companies should learn from Microsoft, and use the product bundling & dumping model instead. Look at all the jobs it created at Netscape.
-- Greg
Slashdot, would a spell-checker for posting be too much to ask? It's not rocket science!
1) Open source gives away software for free.
2) Giving something away for free is anti-capitalist.
3) Anti-capitalism is Communism!
4) Communists don't think like you and I do.
5) You or I would never kill a puppy.
6) As neither of us would kill a puppy, and communists don't think like you or I do, communists will kill puppies.
7) Therefore, Open Source Kills puppies.
8) Hence: Chewbacca.
(It's satire people...)
More nonsense from Gates. I doubt anyone's still listening to him at this point (except US Republicans, who only listen to him because he keeps feeding them megabucks in payo... er, brib... er, campaign contributions [yeah, that's it]).
In short, go fuck yourself.
I'm a Republican, and I sit here typing this message with three computers under the desk. One is a WinXP box, One is running Mandrake 9.2 if i586 and the third is running Mandrake 9.2 for PPC.
Who's listening to gates? PHBs and the suits that they serve.
Political parties have nothing to do with it.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Bourgeois scum!
You have the luxury of doing for free what others must do to support themselves and their families.
It is you who are to blame.
Instead of sipping tea in your luxurious mansion, you should be stripped of it and the funds used to employ those who will be grateful for the work.
"Open Source Kills Jobs"
-- Bill Gates, 2004
"You shouldn't get overly paranoid thinking that Microsoft's a broad competitor and it's not possible to work with us."
-- Bill Gates, 1997
"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
-- Bill Gates, 1993
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
-- Bill Gates - OS/2 Programmer's Guide 1988
"The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh,
not an IBM PC."
-- 1984
"640 Kilobyte ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981
"Microsoft programs are generally bug-free."
-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine
Good whips are still around though, just not those buggy ones. Just ask Indiana Jones.
;-)
(Or this guy I know's girlfriend...
Poor Steve...
i think i just came in my pants!
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
Parent: Microsoft suffers from the same problem - there's just no market for their buggy products anymore.
Well, put these together and they have a vast untapped market for their Force-Feedback Sidewinder joystick.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
* Burger King announces burgers cooked on a griddle are inferior to flame broiled; increased consumption of griddle-cooked burgers will result in major job loss in "manufacturing sector"
* Head of the republican national party criticizes John Kerry
* Donald Trump names another building after himself
* GAP spokesperson lauds the success of NAFTA
* Bill O'Reilly accuses Michael Moore of being "un-American"
* Humvee automaker claims proposed fuel consumption standands are a danger to society
* Larry King interviews Martha Stewart's pool guy and asks the tough questions everyone's dying to know. Chlorine or Bromine?
* Clear Channel Communications questions the integrity of smaller radio radio stations insisting, "They don't have the resources to report news according to established journalistic standards."
* Consensus at 2004 annual meeting of Zoologists confirms: "Bears do shit in the woods."
... if you don't think about it.
I'm a developer running my own business, so In a manner of speaking I do not have a job, not being employed by anyone. So perhaps he's right ;)
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
No, your methodology is inherently flawed: Linux users already know all the URLs, so they don't use Google.
Search engines are for knock-kneed ninnies with no memorization skills.
Go ahead, ask me anything. I'll tell you what page it's on.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS
Bill Gates uses Windux.
Bill Joy uses the Network (it's the Computer!)
Steve Jobs' entire evil overlord alpine command center runs on NextStep
Linus uses FreeBSD (but on a Transmeta)
Kevin Mitnick uses no OS, he's not allowed to
Richard Stallmann bangs two rocks together in binary, but they're free rocks!
Dr. Phil runs Microsoft Bob (tm) (it cares)
Oprah uses UGoGirlnix
Martha Stewart uses OS/390 over a VT100 at the prison library
Michael Moore uses Windows (it's also bloated and stupid)
George Bush uses an etch-a-sketch
John Kerry used to use a Mac but his chin kept hitting the touchpad
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