Memo for our Usenet operatives
Madhusudan Singh
purely coincidental)
Re:Recent reports
I have been slightly alarmed by this new small setback in our company wide
strategy to denigrate alternatives to our cash cow. I was chatting online
with a friend from marketing on penetrating the Chinese and Indian markets
with our upcoming Vista product and agonizing over their governments'
obstinacy in switching over to open source software, when I picked up the
remote to mute Lou Dobbs show on CNN. Unfortunately, they seem to be
trashing windows 2000. This is unacceptable.
Everyone knows that windows 2000 is one of the most secure operating systems
ever invented. A few years ago, we published a scientific study proving how
windows 2000 is more secure and has a lower total cost of ownership than
these Linux, BSD, Apple (the idiot just refuses to die), Sun (that overaged
hulk), etc. Don't these worm writers know how to read ? I have said it
before, and I will say it again - these hackers are all evil people, who
never learnt to read a Microsoft funded impartial study. No wonder they
write Linux or even BSD (I must have a talk with the SCO chairman about
logo copyright infringements in FreeBSD - that logo is mine by right).
Anyways, your vacations are cancelled, and I expect you all to work
overtime. Vista is coming out next year, and already some people are
claiming that we copied Mac OSX look and feel. How is capitalism supposed
to work unless we have an unfettered right to copy other people's work ? I
believe in all of you, and believe that we can easily tide over this minor
problem in a few weeks. You must emphasize that Linux and other
alternatives are harder to use, more expensive, offensive to religion, a
threat to US (Chinese and Indian operatives - please substitute) national
security, etc. Whatever it takes. We shall overcome.
William Gates
(Chief Software Architect)