bill gates

An extremely lame but funny parody of the movie Der Untergang.

LinuxInsider: "The Linux blogosphere was buzzing last week with chatter about an article that asked who the top 10 geeks of all time are.

Topping the list was Linus Torvalds, and notably absent were both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs -- omissions that sparked significant discussion."

A gift or hard graft? We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius.

Techdirt: "So, what's Searete? Well, it appears (warning: pdf file) that it's one of the many ultra secret shell front companies for Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, a company that unabashedly plans to be a huge patent tollbooth on just about any kind of innovation."

You’ll never be Bill Gates working in open source.The valuations offered are, frankly, birdseed. Mozilla brought in under $67 million, 85% from Google.

Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu, still isn’t profitable. SUSE Linux may book $110 million in revenue this year, Red Hat about $600 million.

Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware

Freedom:- Microsoft, the company owned by famous philanthropist Bill Gates, discovered a Russian schoolteacher was using non-Microsoft software at school.

At a hastily convened press conference Bill Gates announced that he personally thinks that "Linux is the best OS ever."

Big news. Huge news. Microsoft huge. Bill Gates has pulled out all the stops and announced that the new, much anticipated hated by me, operating system for personal computers that aren’t Apple or Linus or Abu Dhabi, will be name Microsoft Windows 7.

BTW: Today is Hug Your Ubuntu Day.

OStatic: "I noted that Bill Gates said this past Sunday that there will definitely be no depression and no major recession as a result of the current crisis.

"It's a very interesting crisis," he said. That's how you react when you have tens of billions of dollars."