Negroponte to Gates: I think we need to collaborate and not go to war.

[Rick Tomaschuk]

Bill Gates the philanthropist and Bill Gates the businessman are in
conflict," Negroponte said after the speech. "I think we need to
collaborate and not go to war."

IMHO Gates/Ballmer are egomaniacs - Obsessive preoccupation with the
self. One of the first things taught in program design (the course which
I took anyways...) are the concept of 'egoless programming'.


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 03:24 -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> Glad to see Negroponte didn't take Gates' comments laying down:
> 
> "Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text, and
> you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to
> type," Gates said at a Washington, D.C., conference last month.
> 
> "It's not about a weak computer," Negroponte fired back Tuesday. "It's
> about a slim, thin, fast computer." Negroponte added that his
> organization already was working with Microsoft to develop a version
> of the supercheap machine that would run a stripped-down version of
> Windows. "So jeez, why criticize me in public?" he complained.
> 
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/265508_laptop05.html
> 
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