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Re: oops... Andy Warhol was right



>>>>> "Michael" == Michael I Bushnell, p/BSG <mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:

    Michael> I watched all three hours, and I didn't see it.  Of
    Michael> course, I was hacking at the time, so maybe if there
    Michael> wasn't enough intro I wouldn't have turned around.

    Michael> All I saw was

    Michael> 1) Bill Gates pretending he once did anything
    Michael> interesting, other than make a pile of money by
    Michael> pretending to do interesting things

Gates rocks as a businessman.  You may abhor the system that makes
such a thing possible, and you can even claim that it's not
interesting, but he's meeting his own goals and probably doesn't think
that his ethics are incorrect.  I'd like to smash Microsoft (and I
think free software could do so although Microsoft is moving into
other avenues so it might just be a matter of squishing him down one
place and popping up another), but I respect Bill Gates.

    Michael> 2) Steve Jobs whining about Bill Gates and John Sculley

Love/hate with Steve Jobs.  He obviously has some *major* blind spots.
That wasn't lost on Cringely, he deliberately commented that after
John Sculley was put in place that Apple did the best that it ever
did.

    Michael> 3) Adele Goldberg being really cool.  She's always cool.
    Michael> She made the world cool.

I rode on a plane with her once and may have even described what I was
doing with ROMlib back then.  She never said "HEY JERK -- DO YOU KNOW
WHO I AM".  I think I'd be less embarrassed about my mistake so many
years later if she *had* pointed it out to me.  That's cool.

OTOH, Adele also wouldn't show her technology to others unless she was
required to by her supervisor.  That's not cool, although like Bill
Gates, it is more a product of our current system than a personal
failing of Adele.

    Michael> 4) John Sculley whining that Microsoft "stole" "Apple's"
    Michael> look and feel, an hour after we were informed that, of
    Michael> course, "Apple's" look and feel came from Xerox PARC.  A
    Michael> journalist woould have noticed the irony; sadly there was
    Michael> no journalist involved with the broadcast.

That show was the best bit of video about computers that I can recall
ever seeing.  I had many people tell me the same thing, including
non-computer relatives watching looking for a glimpse of me (and being
disappointed that I wasn't on longer) and computer professionals.  I
think we'll have to disagree on Bob's journalistic ability.

    Michael> 5) Albuquerque depicted in, oh, the worst light anyone
    Michael> could possibly think of.

Heh.

    Michael> 6) Damn, Steve Jobs really was drop dead gorgeous in his
    Michael> twenties.

I'll have to take your word on that.

    Michael> Michael

Judging from the lignux discussion it looks like the Hurd will be
released soon.  Congrats.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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