Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
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Do you have like a blog or something? Good bit of writing, this.
I am flattered, however no, I just shitpost here on lemmy and have no other social media presence.
Also I use AI tools to help me write like this. I like to twist context into funny things like this but it's more of an experiment than anything serious. -
Richard 'I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it' Stallman?
That Richard Stallman?
(I know he has since changed his views, the 'allergic to PR' part just seemed to be a bit of an understatement. Not trying to start an argument, just thought that was funny)
Stallman is certainly crazy I think.. and creepy.
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I don't think you remember how insanely terrible Windows was in the 90s.
I'm not sure that the alternatives were any better, everything was terrible back then.
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The Typo Monster, he comes out at night, mostly
Now you just need to slay the Apostrophe Monster.
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I remember that IBM was famously missing the trend in the late 80s/90s and couldn't understand why regular consumers would ever want to buy a PC. It's why they gave the PC clone market away, never seriously approached their OS/2 thing, and never really marketed directly to anybody except businesses.
Microsoft really pushed the idea that regular people needed a home PC which laid the foundation for so many people already having the hardware in place to jump on the internet as soon as it became accessible.
For a brief moment it looked like a toss up between Microsoft IIS webservers serving up .asp files (or coldfusion .cf - RIP) vs Apache pushing CGI but in the end the Linux solution was more baked and flexible when it was time to launch and scale an internet startup in that era.
Somebody else would have done what Microsoft did for sure, had they not been there, and I suppose we could be paying AT&T for Unix licenses these days too. But yeah, ultimately both Gates and Torvalds were right in terms of operating systems and well timed.
ColdFusion
I was there, 3,000 years ago
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
Someone might remember Bill 300 years from now as a bump on the road for Linux.
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Is that why Outlook is so intuitive and easy to use?
I did say private individuals, Outlook is more of a corporate product.
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Luckily they learned from it and redesigned the kernel from scratch -- hold on, my producer's telling me that no, it's still the NT kernel under there. Outstanding.
Most users neither know nor care what that is.
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I'm not sure that the alternatives were any better, everything was terrible back then.
Yeah, probably not. But the idea that Windows won because of how great it was just doesn't hold up
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Most users neither know nor care what that is.
They might care when their os showing the same problems it did 30 years ago
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ColdFusion
I was there, 3,000 years ago
There are at least 2 of us! I think it was widely reported that the downfall of MySpace was at least partially linked to their use Coldfusion. When they needed to scale and adapt it just wasn't ready.
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