26th April Comments

Bill Gates’ Disdain for Open Source Even in Retirement

Posted on April 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am

Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill’s never played well with others.
* Microsoft v. United States
* Microsoft v. AOL (Netscape)
* Microsoft v. Apple
* Microsoft v. Sun

At a speech on Monday for the Institute of Systems Biology he gave a speech followed by a Q&A session he reportedly answered one poor chap’s questions on whether open source methodologies would be used in his research.
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