The reviewer assumes that the "real" Bill Gates has important and useful insights, but for some reason has decided to hide behind a bland persona and hand out a few platitudes. Another interpretation is that what you see is what you get: Gates doesn't have any insights, no vision of the future. Maybe he doesn't even have a clear idea of how he reached his dominant position.
No doubt the guy is smart. You have to admire the Microsoft Internet turnaround from a business point of view, even if you don't like the implications. But I don't think he teach us anything because his success is largely an historical accident.
I have a copy of a Caldera press release from May 23 1996 (Linux Kongress, Berlin) in which they announced that they were going to obtain POSIX and FIPS certifications and the X/Open Brand for Unix 95 and XPG4 Base 95. They appointed Ian Nandhra as director of product certification (continuing his work on the defunct Linux-FT distribution) for this purpose.
It never happened. I'm sure there are good reasons why it didn't work out, but I can't help feeling that if they had done it, the big industry boys would have lined up behind them instead of Red Hat, and we certainly wouldn't have all this fuss about the LSB (You'll notice that the same people are supporting LSB, so they can be credited with some consistency!)
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The reviewer assumes that the "real" Bill Gates has important and useful insights, but for some reason has decided to hide behind a bland persona and hand out a few platitudes. Another interpretation is that what you see is what you get: Gates doesn't have any insights, no vision of the future. Maybe he doesn't even have a clear idea of how he reached his dominant position.
No doubt the guy is smart. You have to admire the Microsoft Internet turnaround from a business point of view, even if you don't like the implications. But I don't think he teach us anything because his success is largely an historical accident.
I have a copy of a Caldera press release from May 23 1996 (Linux Kongress, Berlin) in which they announced that they were going to obtain POSIX and FIPS certifications and the X/Open Brand for Unix 95 and XPG4 Base 95. They appointed Ian Nandhra as director of product certification (continuing his work on the defunct Linux-FT distribution) for this purpose.
It never happened. I'm sure there are good reasons why it didn't work out, but I can't help feeling that if they had done it, the big industry boys would have lined up behind them instead of Red Hat, and we certainly wouldn't have all this fuss about the LSB (You'll notice that the same people are supporting LSB, so they can be credited with some consistency!)