Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Mar 2008 07:36 UTC
"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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2007-09-06
If I remember correctly, the Gates family was into law; my fear is that Bill would have followed the family business and gone into law and possibly politics based on his drive for kingship.
There are days I'm glad that people with that kind of charisma and mind for strategy went into the areas they did; Elvis in music, Bill in business...
It would be interesting to see how it would have turned out. Maybe some other company would have broken the computer from IBM's monopoly or maybe we'd still be living in a 90% IBM world instead of a 90% Microsoft world.
Thankfully, the way it did turn out left us with alternatives and choice though it still get's one labelled a freak for thinking outside the Window.. er.. box.