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- From: quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Stephen Quan)
- Subject: Re: Bill Gates: What a weenie...
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:41:24 GMT
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- Hello all, I know this is diverges from the original thread, and the
- comments included in this article are 100% my own, so if you find flaws
- in it or it to be a naive view, then I accept that!
-
- First of all, Bill Gates, if he is a 'weenie', he is one very rich and
- successful one and there is no denying that. I have always believe in
- those times, there were big opportunities of being rich and successful
- by just being the right person at the right time and at the right place.
-
- As I see Bill Gates, before Microsoft, he could modestly claim to being
- like every other person trying to make a cut in [programming?] the computer
- industry.
-
- I wish I was born 15 years earlier and it could have been me!
-
- There is no doubt that a lot organisations today, depend on Microsoft for
- their products. That has undoubtedly increased Bill Gates worth 1000 times.
-
- Despite all the critisms, I still think Bill Gates, today plays an essential
- role in the computer industry. Defining and redefining the software to
- be used on our PCs today and tomorrow.
-
- But whether I believe Microsoft is in total control of our software, I
- denied it! It is the consumers who choose whether Microsoft is in control
- of our software through sales. As a commercial organisation they depend
- on sales. So we control Microsoft, who control our software.
-
- For Microsoft to succeed, I guess, they have to have a good marketting
- body to maintain the interest of the computing body of today.
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- Stephen Quan (quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au) Tel : 002 202844 (local)
- Research Fellow, Computer Scientist, Fax : 002 240282 (local)
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- University of Tasmania, Australia. Fax : 61 02 240282
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