I might get a chance to ask bill gates one question

[Cerf]

Hey,

I know it been awhile since I've been on the board, but I have an amazing oppertunity. I am now a software engineering student at the university of waterloo and bill gates is visiting on october 13. While at the university bill will hold a general question and answer period. Now, I am going to appily to be apart of that question and answer period. There is no guarantee that I will be able to ask him a question, just a chance.

That said, I would like to extend this chance to the community, and I would like to ask a question that the community wants answered. Therefore, I ask: what do you want to ask bill gates?

[tlyons]

Hey, Bill. Can you spare me a hundred thousand?

[rocketpcguy]

did he ever try out linux himself?

[gnuoob]

Hey,

I know it been awhile since I've been on the board, but I have an amazing oppertunity. I am now a software engineering student at the university of waterloo and bill gates is visiting on october 13. While at the university bill will hold a general question and answer period. Now, I am going to appily to be apart of that question and answer period. There is no guarantee that I will be able to ask him a question, just a chance.

That said, I would like to extend this chance to the community, and I would like to ask a question that the community wants answered. Therefore, I ask: what do you want to ask bill gates?


why are you here at a college if you yourself never felt the need to finish your degree?

[JayMan8081]

why are you here at a college if you yourself never felt the need to finish your degree?

I like that one. I've often wondered that myself when I've heard about him speaking at university.

[blackbelt_jones]

Hey, Dude, what's with the haircut?

Actually, did you try "ever try Linux yourself" is a good question. I have to say, though, when I think about it, I'm really not that interested in what Bill has to say. I'd love to hang out with Linus, or, better yet, Stallman. I would scrub out Stallman's toilet for the privelage of buying him lunch.

[Pafnoutios]

"Microsoft's first failure seems to be it's only unprofitable one, not being able to program a working Unix. Would Microsoft ever consider creating a Unix in the future?"

They are, afterall, the first ones (if not the only) to buy a license from SCO.

[ArgPirate]

off topic but...
"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."
- Queen Victoria, March, 1870.

thats a pretty horrible sig

[janet loves bill]

hhmmm, one question...............Hey Bill, the world is big enough so people have a choice of using 2 types of Processors (Intel, AMD).........So why is the world NOT big enough to support 2 different Operating Systems?? ( closed source, open source )

it is simple and to the point!

[dboyer]

off topic but...
"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of 'Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."
- Queen Victoria, March, 1870.

thats a pretty horrible sig

So awful, and yet, so ironic... I like it.

I vote for the college one. I presume hes not going to give a lame "stay in school!" speech, but I'd be curious to see what he says.

[eskaypey]

did he ever try out linux himself?

Doesnt Microsoft have their backup servers on *nix?

[Parcival]

I would like to ask Bill why Microsoft doesn't release all their software under the GPL. Can you say "Windows Community Edition"?

Microsoft is a corporation, hence it wants money. To get money means in Microsoft's situation to install Windows on every computer on this world. Windows has one challenger, namely Linux, and Linux is strong because it's free. If Windows were free, it would be the standard OS for an eternity - and MS would get insanely rich mere by the support contracts. Windows piracy would drop to zero, implementation of new features speed up, and customer satisfaction would reach new peaks. Yet I beliebe MS is still living too much in last century's digital world to understand this potential.

[tlyons]

I thought that the Vista beta was the Community Edition. "You guys can test it for free, tell us what to fix, then we'll sell the (semi-)fixed version back to you."

What a privilege.

- T.