I don't have anything near as much money as him, I would consider a copy of Linux, because the O/S and software are written so much better than anything he or his company has ever come up with.
I did note that it seemed a rather canned interview, it looked like it was held on the Microsoft campus, Billy-boy seemed perfectly calm, Brian Williams seemed nervous.
I was rather insulted by this advertisement by NBC News (or was that MSNBC?), especially as there was never one mention of Open Source, the only non-MS operating system mentioned was Apple, and Billy-boy only had to say that his company had written a lot of software for that O/S.
Yes, it's a duplicate message, I heard about this a while ago, I have my own opinions on the subject, and yes, I'm tired of hearing about this too.
But how is an endless discussion of the relative merit of a subject that has been brought up over and over any more relevant than the original subject?
This current discussion is not about the article, it is about the merit of continued postings on the article; the current discussion is metainformation, it is information about the format of information (in this case, the merit).
So now we have two ongoing threads to discuss: (1) the merit of posts about "MyLifeBits" (or however you prefer to refer to it) and (2) posts about the merits of posting articles about the merits of future discussions on the subject of "MyLifeBits."
Maybe this message can start a new thread, we can perhaps call it, "the merits of posting new messages about posting new articles regarding the merit of posting articles on a subject that has recently received several similar postings."
--fairfax
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I don't have anything near as much money as him, I would consider a copy of Linux, because the O/S and software are written so much better than anything he or his company has ever come up with. I did note that it seemed a rather canned interview, it looked like it was held on the Microsoft campus, Billy-boy seemed perfectly calm, Brian Williams seemed nervous. I was rather insulted by this advertisement by NBC News (or was that MSNBC?), especially as there was never one mention of Open Source, the only non-MS operating system mentioned was Apple, and Billy-boy only had to say that his company had written a lot of software for that O/S.
Yes, it's a duplicate message, I heard about this a while ago, I have my own opinions on the subject, and yes, I'm tired of hearing about this too. But how is an endless discussion of the relative merit of a subject that has been brought up over and over any more relevant than the original subject? This current discussion is not about the article, it is about the merit of continued postings on the article; the current discussion is metainformation, it is information about the format of information (in this case, the merit). So now we have two ongoing threads to discuss: (1) the merit of posts about "MyLifeBits" (or however you prefer to refer to it) and (2) posts about the merits of posting articles about the merits of future discussions on the subject of "MyLifeBits." Maybe this message can start a new thread, we can perhaps call it, "the merits of posting new messages about posting new articles regarding the merit of posting articles on a subject that has recently received several similar postings." --fairfax