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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:26:25 PST8
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
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Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Humor from another list

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This exchange from another list is too good not to pass on to you all

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To: suespammers@spamcon.org
Subject: Re: [Suespammers] Gates forcasts spam elimination in 2 years
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:02:29 -0800
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette"

In message <004401c3e512$bc605df0$5978a243@Coldfire>,
"Keith W. Kimmel" wrote:

>You'll have to excuse my blunt comments, but Bill Gates is an idiot. And yeah,
>while it is true that he is rich beyond belief, but he is still an idiot.

Not true at all. Quite the opposite. He's a near genius who was the first
to correctly realize that, specifically wwith respect to *consumer* software,
quality is an optional attribute.

>He hasn't even managed to build an operating system that is worth a damn in all
>these years

What makes you think he ever wanted to?

Quality takes time, and dollars. You have to assign additional engineers.
You have to do things like structured code walkthrus. You have to design
and adopt internal coding standards and practices, and you have to then
enforce those. All of this takes time and money... time and money which
Gates long ago correctly surmized that he could save, simply by dispensing
with these sorts of troublesome software engineering practices.

Once you begin to realize that Microsoft and Gates get paid based on the
_quantity_ of the software they produce, rather than based upon the _quality_
of the software they produce, Gates then begins to look like the genius he is.
Why should he spend money on software quality when he can achieve the same
effect for his bottom line by instead spending LESS money on agressive
marketing (``Eat Shit! Ten billion flies can't be wrong!'') and by simply
working diligently, over the course of many many years, to suppress, thwart,
and undercut any and all competition in the marketplace?

No, this fellow _does_ know exactly what he's doing. And also, he's good
at it. The fact that millions of software consumers still buy his shoddily
engineered products proves it.

The man is a marketing genius. How many other people do you know who have
been able to convince hundreds of millions of people to exchange real dollars
for utter crap?

Just count yourself lucky that, in the U.S.A. at least, we have an organi-
zation (the FDA) that prevents Bill Gates from being able to market, say,
Windows CE into the implantable pacemaker and/or nuclear medicine industries.

>{Microsoft anti-spam plans are...} another
>marketing scheme to sell us more of his crappy software.

Bingo!

>And for all of you that support the "pay for e-mail" joke...

To the best of my knowledge, no thinking person other than Bill Gates (and
the people who work for him) support this looney idea. So don't worry.
This is a caes where Gates' reach is likely to exceed his grasp. As much
as he would like to do so, it is highly unlikely that he would be able
to unilaterally change the fundamental nature of e-mail.

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