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A Real Bill Gates Rant

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-not-so-bad dept.

lou ibmix XI submitted an email written by Bill Gates a few years ago and turned over to the feds as part of the government's antitrust case. Great quotes like 'Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?' and 'The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind.' We like to think of him as an abstract, but I think this is interesting stuff. Also, this might seem familiar. Oops.

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  1. old old old old old news by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    old news x 5 years ago

    Therefore *not* news and shouldn't be on the front page of slashdot.

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    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
    1. Re:old old old old old news by zbharucha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Neither should the Oscar story.

    2. Re:old old old old old news by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      True.

      BOTH of these stories should be removed from slashdot - the Oscar story because it's not tech related, and the Gates story because it's several years old and not news (it's now history).

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      "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  2. FAgORZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you have a plDay sling, return it to

  3. Re:Massive Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but at least this one has a credible source, namely /. ...

    Reminds me of the story where a mistake was canonized on wikipedia because they had read it on some respectable web site, later it turned out that this respectable web site was in turn quoting the mistake on wikipedia...

    And back to the topic, this really wasn't too interesting the first time, much less now. Fuck you slashdot, you suck.