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Whenever any of guy guys assemble a multi-billion dollar company just by selling software you let me know. Or at least get a job with one of the companies you s

Whenever any of guy guys assemble a multi-billion dollar company just by selling software you let me know. Or at least get a job with one of the companies you seem so keen to analyze in depth (Google, MS, Apple, IBM). Then maybe your opinions would count something. While you sit at your desk analyzing this and that, thousands of business flourish and make money, thanks to the privacy killers (Google), the imperial monopolists (Microsoft) or the vertical Nazis (Apple) or the old Nazis (IBM). What have YOU been doing to change the world like that, huh? And don't come all "I have been doing Linux!" on me, because the largest amount of contributors to Linux are the very companies you pathetically try to bash from your fantastic jobs as code monkeys at ACME International Ltd. "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done; it's not an end on itself. The massive success of all these companies, MS included, shows that shit is getting done, lives are improving, people are making money and being happy. In the end, that's all that matters. "Experts" have been killing IBM, then Microsoft, then Oracle, even Apple, for years. These people grow old, retire, and these companies continue (and will continue) to be successful for a simple reason: they provide value.

rbanffy 17y ago
> "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done Interesting. I was under the impression businesses and customers were only the tools we use to finance the software we want to build. ;-)
bad_user 17y ago
> "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done; it's not an end on itself. You're saying it like "hacker folks" are the only ones with this "misconception". When Graham Bell invented the telephone, or when Thomas Edison invented the radio, or when Einstein developed the relativity theory, or when Benjamin Franklin did research on electricity ... guess these guys where all thinking ... "what tools to make for businesses and consumers to get shit done". Yeah, that makes lots of sense :)
- rbanffy 17y ago
  PHBs never learn, do they? ;-)

rbanffy 17y ago

> "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done Interesting. I was under the impression businesses and customers were only the tools we use to finance the software we want to build. ;-)

bad_user 17y ago

> "Hacker" folks need to understand that software is just a tool for business and consumers to use to get shit done; it's not an end on itself. You're saying it like "hacker folks" are the only ones with this "misconception". When Graham Bell invented the telephone, or when Thomas Edison invented the radio, or when Einstein developed the relativity theory, or when Benjamin Franklin did research on electricity ... guess these guys where all thinking ... "what tools to make for businesses and consumers to get shit done". Yeah, that makes lots of sense :)

rbanffy 17y ago
PHBs never learn, do they? ;-)