Is Bill Gates Evil?
Most people seem to think Bill gates is out to rule the world, but I think he is just missunderstood! Bill Gates is just like any businessman out there.
He has a quality product which he markets and supports. His product is superior than other products not because it performs better than all the rest, but because it is widely used and reconized as the popular opinion. When you are trying to sell something you need to appeal to the nature of the consumer, if you do not then you will have very limited sales. Microsoft appeals to the consumer by being easy to use and very versitile. 95, 2000, ME, XP and Vista may not be the fastest or the most stable OS's in the world, but they are exactly what the consumers are looking for. Just because Microsoft has mades billions upon billions does not make them the most evil company in the world, just a very impressive one. Bill Gates started out in Harvard but droped out to form his dream company Microsoft, most people would think this to be ridiculous. But ingenious it was. Gates knew that the computer world would grow by leaps and bounds if it only had a friendlier interface. People are fasinated by computers, they spend what ever it takes to buy one or to fix one. The computer has assimulated into todays society so well that if some one would take away all the computers now it would be anarchy.
Today's world is so dependant on computers, if your in the computer field you do what ever you have to do to keep up to date and on the cutting edge. There is always another company out there who is going to pick up where you left off or sometimes even make millions off your missfortune. The movie Anti Trust paints a very vivid picture of how intergrated our lives are with technology. There are a lot of websites that poke fun at Bill Gates not because he is realy evil, or the Anti Christ, but because they are jelious. There are small minded people that think Linux and Unix based opperating systems are better than windows because they had to learn alot of command line or coding. Because they put so much time into using their computers they are upset that somebody that knows nothing can get online, print pictures, burn music and do everything that the Unix based users worked so hard to learn. So who is to bear the brunt of the hatered for this? Bill Gates, who else but the founder and CEO of Microsoft.
Windows is not the kind of opperating system you would use for large business or ISP based use. but is versitile and scalable. Microsoft even uses Unix based opperating systems for HotMail, or at least they used to. You realy should give someone like Bill Gates alot of respect for what he accomplished, Even if some means has been dishonest or illeagal, He has created something to be admired. You can ask any business owner how hard it is to start a business and to penatrate the market. 80% of first time business's fail in the first year. As a business owner myself I completly understand what is invovled in reaching the masses. It doesnt make the illeagal things that Micorosft has done right, they should be held accountable. But completly understandable why they have done what they have done.
I would'nt mind meeting Bill Gates, I would love to ask him questions about how he felt about certian obsticles he has faced and how he has overcame them. Further more I do find humor in the suggestions that Microsoft is alot like the Borg. The reason I think it so humorous is because microsoft does develop software solutions for virtualy everything out there. The Borg's catch phrase is "We are the Borg, Resistance is futile. We will add your technical and physical distinctivness to our own. Surrender your selves resistance is futile!"
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