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Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important?
Ian Wilson writes "silicon.com has launched its latest Agenda Setters poll which puts together a list of the top 50 people influencing tech. I remember Slashdot carried last year's poll - which was won by Steve Jobs. The full top 50 includes many of the usual suspects. Last year's winner Steve Jobs has slipped down to second place, but perhaps most interesting is the fact that the panel of judges couldn't separate Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates - they are tied in seventh place."
Cowboy Neal
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...but perhaps most interesting is the fact that the panel of judges couldn't separate Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates - they are tied in seventh place.
Is there any difference between the two men? Don't they both more or less control an operating system that is freely distributable, freely modifiable, strongly based on standards, with rock solid performance?
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But look how much crime went down under Vlad!
CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH!
Karma to anyone who can actually call the match.
I suspect the euro-wide dna scan is actually to find someone he can nominate as his successor, assuming he already has some of Vlad to compare everyone to... (can you tell I'm not a fan ? [grin])
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
It disgraceful that Britney Spears didn't even make the top 50 this year. Without her, I don't think Google would ever get any searches.
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So they EXPECTED to get slashdotted?
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Where ever you are, whoever you are, thank you.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Hey, where's Darl McBride!
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
I can get by without a gate, but I can't get by without a job.
We all know the outcome of a celebrity deathmatch between Bill and Linus:
From pictures, I'd say that Linus has a physical advantage over Gates; but Bill would probably play dirty and get someone else (Balmer, perhaps) to fight for him (he never doesn anything for himself.) That would give Linus the excuse to play tag-team with Tove, and she'd kick the ass of Bill, Melinda, *and* Balmer (remember Tove is a six-time Finnish National karate champ!)
I think that when Linus said that SCO was on crack, my respect for the man went up about 1000%.
I'm number 864,576. You're number 1,365,918.
Duh, he fathered the guy who would one day lead the resistance and bring down SkyNet.
It doesn't get much more technology-influencing than that.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
Could you site book, chapter, and verse, please? Or is this just Bible FUD?
Isn't this the part where he gather's dna from Vlad, Napolean, Sun Zu, Ghengis Khan, Montezuma, Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible and Sgt. Slaughter all to form the new Cobra leader Serpentor?
Isn't that what happened at Jericho? If I recall, the entire population of the city was slaughtered (except for the prostitute and her folks...) once the walls fell down.
Slightly OT, but does place a precedent on mass-killing.
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
"Piter, too, is dead."
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
Well, four year olds can be extremely annoying and noisy. And as you know, God has a certain habit of resting on the seventh day of the week.