"... This guy, William Gates, is my age....I've never met him. I hate to pick on him. He's obviously a smart man. Obviously a nicer guy than a lot of his competitors. Physically killed and ate all of his competitors. The older he gets, the uglier he gets. It's all about fear, uncertainty and hate. Where do you want to go today to give us some money? The man seems troubled. He has a guilty conscience. Financing third-world kids. Palladium-secuirty state. An operating system that fears and hates you. Like an airport. They still expect you to spend money in there. Where to you want to go today? Men with automatic weapons. Surveillance cameras all over the place. You can't sob as you kiss your mother goodbye at the airport, because it's all on videotape. Then a security check, assumes you've swallowed dynamite and will kill any one you see. That's the contemporary computer system. Razor-thin returns on investment. Can't innovate. If you do it will be swept up into Microsoft OS (or Apple). Largest legal destruction of wealth in history. VCs should admit it. Swaggering tech CEOs a race of slaves, like deer in market's headlights. Moral choices keep getting starker. Even free software guys spend most of their time aping commercial software. Free software still has an almost pirate state of mind. GNU's Not Linix? What are you, then? Something childish about that. Not as bad as the scene in commercial software. There's no reason to buy Microsoft software that spies on you. Do you want ot make Jack Valenti the king of your box and Mickey Mouse your commissar? Why do you put up with viruses? Not just infecting your girlfriend, boys, you get your mom, your five-year old daughter. Why don't you teach your 11-year-old daughter not to click on that attachment? Because she's your 11-year-old daughter, moron. My posting software just crapped out for a few minutes, which means that I lost a bunch of this talk. So I'm just going to listen. FROM http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillm...