Comments on: Bill Gates Hates Children

By: twopeak

twopeak — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:35:23 +0000

fct, he was talking about the fact that BG gives millions of dollars in development aid, his foundation does not give food to poor people, but tries to get rid of some factors that make survival quite hard in those countries (such as disseases that could have been cured if pharmaceutical companies would research them)

And its quite right: its his job to criticize everything that can be a threat to him. Check out how anti Steve Jobs (Apple) was against Flash memory before his iPods used them, or the anti-Intell publicities when the G4 came out.

Ignore them and keep innovating linux. Even if microsoft copies other innovations, the innovation will be introduced in the world.

By: Richo123

Richo123 — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:44:03 +0000

Good one Jeff. Sounds like Gates and Ballmer are getting into a spot of bother over Vista. Hypercapitalist Forbes magazine is suggesting Linux as a possible alternative:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/22/vista-microsoft-ballmer_cz_dl_0322microsoft.html

Will 2007 be the year of desktop Linux?

By: fct

fct — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:47:42 +0000

Well, Tom, I’m glad that the founder of one of the monopolies with the hugest number of crushed competitors (read as in “people losing their jobs as a consequence of illegal practices”) is thought of as a great benefactor (while still keeping his rank as the richest individual in the world).

So instead of using his public persona for a bit of harmless fun I’ll start to perform some more socially productive tasks. Like getting into conversations that joke about things like the general suckyness of Chrysler SUVs and tell them to stop making fun of a company that employs many people that otherwise would be freezing in the street.

Political correctness ad nauseam.

By: Tom McCubbin

Tom McCubbin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:01:20 +0000

Bill Gates is one of the biggest benefactors, donators today. I have been a penguin riding geek for 8 years now and develop for a living mainly on solaris, and linux now. I don’t really like windows, but i think its really quite wrong to put things like this up. The guy (BG) does not hate children.

Sure this is humorous, but imagine your face there instead of his. This is a bit low…lets keep it real. stop slinging the mud and do something to make opensource competitive…

By: Simos Xenitellis

Simos Xenitellis — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:00:59 +0000

Bill Gates hates children #2
http://flickr.com/photos/simosx/113922767/

By: Pascal Klein

Pascal Klein — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:40:15 +0000

Alan: Definitely. Actually, I would not be surprised to see something along the lines of a $300 laptop afterwards for adults. I could feature a big screen some more processing power and whatnot. I certainly would use it.

By: Alan Horkan

Alan Horkan — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:53:26 +0000

The hand crank makes a lot of sense if you are familiar with rugged the wind up radios a British inventor developed and has been a real benefit (don’t under estiamte the value of a good weather forecast). The project may be called One Laptop per Child but I could see adults running micro businesses making great use of them too. Indeed if this project really works as intended it will empower users to thing the designers never though of.

By: jdub

jdub — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:39:31 +0000

bi: The hand-crank is used when the C cell batteries are dead. It's very practical. Read all about it on the OLPC website - it's an open project.

By: bi

bi — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:27:58 +0000

But honestly, I hope Google and MIT’s final product doesn’t require a crank to operate. By the way, any details on what processor it has, what OS the thing’s going to run, etc.?

By: Pascal Klein

Pascal Klein — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:36:38 +0000

Interestingly, if you look at the countries, corporates and individuals who have critisized the OLPC project, they all loose something through the making and propagation of the OLPC laptop.

Intel critisized the project because it does not use an Intel chip, rather an AMD one. Mali critisized the project: “African women who do most of the work in the countryside don’t have time to sit with their children and research what crops they should be planting…What is needed is clean water and real schools.” Another representative from Mali suggested that this project was just a disguise to allow western influence and a new customer base there.

Now Bill Gates has a go at this project (couldn’t see that one coming). My guesses are because his suggestion was turned down by Negroponte to use Windows on the $100 laptops. If they were to run Windows they would not be $100 laptops, but rather $350-450 laptops.

I hate this sort of thing. People who do not necessarily gain anything out of something that is good for a whole lot of other people want to ruin it for them. This sort of crap has happened so many times before and it’s just useless and a pain in the ass. Gates should just shut his trap.

Cheers,
Pascal