SHOCM » Bill Gates http://www.shocm.com Open Source, Cloud, Scotch, Baseball, Family, and Programming since the 1900's Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:24:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Bill Gates and Open Source http://www.shocm.com/2008/06/bill-gates-and-open-source/ http://www.shocm.com/2008/06/bill-gates-and-open-source/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:48:58 +0000 Shocm http://www.vanjohnson.com/?p=156 I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You’ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek’s [...]]]> I think it goes without saying that I am a huge supporter of Open Source but believe it or not I am also a big fan of Bill Gates. You’ve got to respect what he did for the industry and what he does for the world through his charities. The guy is a geek’s version of Michael Jordon. I don’t agree with everything the man does obviously but I think the guy has a great mind and he will be missed in the computer industry when he finally moves on.

Anyways, I enjoy watching Bill Gates talk but I kind of caught something interesting in this last interview I was watching.

Here is a link to the interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7462156.stm

At about 1.45 Bill talks about how finding the source code for an operating system took him and Paul Allen to the next level on tinkering. I thought to myself how fortunate we were that he had that oppurtunity to look at and study an operating systems source code. It would have been a real shame if the ability to look at source code was deprived from Bill Gates. I wonder how many great thinkers Linux has or will inspire by offering them a similar opportunity.

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