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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • I feel like a good illustration would be a bicycle.

    1. My bicycle works fine, a little slow, but it beats walking, and requires little to no outside resources or upkeep.
    2. My neighbor, Joe Microsoft, slaps an 80cc motor on my bike. It’s a lot faster, and less work for me, and Joe keeps it full of gas and tuned up, and fixes it when it breaks.
    3. I need Joe now to support my biking. I no longer have the resources to do it at this level, but Joe does.

    Is that about right? Are we selling open source for speed and convenience?


  • Bill Gates stated: “One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people’s browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depend on proprietary IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.”

    That Wikipedia is a gold mine of evil.