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> They’ve either forgotten the past or they don’t care. Or they're too young to know or remember! Working with recent grads, I've discovered that for most of
by ggambetta 8y ago
> They’ve either forgotten the past or they don’t care.
Or they're too young to know or remember!
Working with recent grads, I've discovered that for most of them Bill Gates has always been this grey-haired, well-natured philanthropist. They can't believe it when I tell them of how universally reviled Microsoft was, and I feel like Grandpa Simpson talking about onions in his belt :(
- kazinator 8y agoI speak here perhaps not only for myself but others: although Microsoft had been reviled, and still is, somehow Gates escaped that personally. I've never felt that I dislike Bill Gates. There had been a smaller Microsoft before the rise of MS-DOS and Windows. Microsoft was a vendor of BASIC interpreters that were integrated into some 8 bit microcomputers, which I used. The Apple II's "Applesoft" basic was derived from Microsoft's work. Its name is a portmanteau of Apple and Microsoft, a kind of touchstone that highlights a complex history of cooperation and rivalry between the two.
- sifoobar 8y agoHere, let me fix that for you: https://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43014&stc=1 https://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmenti... Bu xie, my pleasure.
- kazinator 8y agoI actually had that in an earlier edit of my comment! I got rid of it for lack of stability in the URL. There doesn't appear to be a nice semi-permanent home on the web for these photos.