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发信人: ykwch.bbs@bbs.cqupt.edu.cn (心蓝), 信区: Linux
标 题: Bill Gates给开放源代码社区的公开信
发信站: 幽幽黄桷兰 (Sun Mar 2 10:27:13 2003)
转信站: SZU!news.tiaozhan.com!news.happynet.org!CQUPT
发信人: linuxrat (竹剑居士*农大历史上最差的学生), 信区: Linux
标 题: Bill G.给公开源代码社区的公开信[FWD]
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jan 21 18:03:07 2000)
是否真假, 请大家来判断啦. 我就不说了, 正饿着肚皮呢...
我很怀疑的说. 呵呵...仿照Bill G.的语气?
URL: linuxtoday.com
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Author's note: I received this document from a well placed source
who requests anonymity, but has proven to be highly unreliable in
the past. In keeping with the tradition begun by Eric Raymond and
'The Halloween document', I refer to this as the 'Coming up on
Groundhog's Day document'. One intereting thing: "DOJ wants
community service" was scrawled across the top.
An Open Letter to the Linux Community from Bill G.
As you may know, I have recently lost my job as Chief Executive of the
world's most powerful software company. You don't need to worry about
me or my family, though. I still have a job as software architect and
thinker. Our cars are paid for and we have a little money in the bank.
We'll be fine.
Now that I have some time on my hands, I'd like to join your community
and help out. After all, if not for a hand up from friends like IBM
and Apple, I might never have reached a position to crush them.
The way I see it, we each have a problem that the other can help. I'm
bored and I'm so stinking rich that, short of funding my own manned
Mars mission, I can't possibly spend it all. Your problem is easier.
You want to dominate the world. Not a single one of you has ever done
it, but I have.
Titles aren't important to me. "Leader" will be fine. Let's give that
poor Finn some relief. You've leaned on him too long. Besides, he
works for my buddy, Paul. Let's help Paul to get his undivided
attention for a while.
As leader, I would keep my eye on the prize, and yours as well. I
would quickly introduce some healthy paranoia. No more "Microsoft is
dead" talk. Over the years, I've heard that mainframes are dead, IBM
is dead, COBOL is dead, Apple is dead, Novell is dead, Unix is dead,
etc.. Smugness makes you complacent. Complacency gets you killed.
Didn't you guys pay any attention to Netscape? Started to believe
their press clippings. Heh, heh. I still chuckle when I picture that
Andreeson kid's face once he realized how screwed they were.
These are dangerous and exciting times. A whole new product is coming
out-Windows 2000. A lot of people have been waiting for it. A lot of
people are going to buy it and use it. Steve, the guy who took my old
job, is your worst nightmare. Believe it or not, I care about the
technology. Steve doesn't. He's a marketing guy all the way. His first
priority is winning. His second priority is to achieve his first
priority. He will sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. The product will get
better, too, because that gives him something else to sell, sell,
sell, sell, sell.
Sun Tzu said that all warfare is based on deception. That's what
Microsoft has been pulling on you, and you've been taking the bait. I
know that you love your OS and the software that it supports. You need
to understand that Windows 2000 has a lot going for it as well. It
certainly is the most technically advanced Windows yet. Honestly,
though, nothing in it is new. Some of its new features merely catch it
up with Linux and bring it closer to commercial Unices and to Netware
Directory Services. We could argue and measure all day trying to
figure out which one is better. We won't do that because it doesn't
matter. All those benchmarks and technical comparisons? Misdirection,
plain and simple.
Our real problem is not technology, it's inertia. We face a bazillion
MCSE's out in the field and a bazillion CIO's who buy Microsoft
because they know how. End users think they know Windows. They're
afraid of Linux because Windows has been so bad. I saw one report that
people's computers get more reliable over time. Why? They stop doing
things that make their computers crash. They learn a million little
ways to get around the shortcomings in their systems. They'll tell you
they don't understand computers, and they'll be right because Windows
problems are incomprehensible. Heck, how often do tech reps throw up
their hands and re-install everything? They think they can't learn
Linux and they they think they know Windows and they're darned well
sure they don't understand computers.
Believe me, we can change their minds. Believe me, we wouldn't have
been worried if you couldn't win any users over. But look, IBM is no
slouch when it comes to marketing. Neither are Compaq and Oracle. Look
at what Apple's been able to do in the last couple of years. Of
course, Apple had two big advantages. Everybody knows that Macs are
easy to use. Linux users tell newbies to read the manual, Mac users
assume you shouldn't have to. Besides they're cute. Whatever the
reason, Apple has changed a lot of minds.
We need make it easier for people to get started. This is where I
broke into night sweats on the old job. You see, easy is easier than
you think. It's great to be doing all that KDE and GNOME stuff and
things like COAS and Lizard and Linuxconf and Newbie Doc sites and the
like. The best way to make Linux easy, though, is to ask a friend for
help. Just about every body knows someone they think is a computer
whiz who can come help them with Windows. That's not true for Linux.
Linux has a few important tricks up its sleeve, though. Linux is free
and Linux is fun and Linux can do a lot of very cool things with cheap
hardware. For that reason, Linux is becoming the cool OS on campus and
a growing choice with young Web Entrepeneurs. Take aim at these early
adapters and the rest will follow. They'll have someone to show them
how things are done and Linux will get easier.
Cute shouldn't be a problem, either. Penguins are very cute. Everybody
loves penguins. I wonder if VA Linux systems could make a
penguin-shaped workstation? Maybe put a CD-ROM drive in its bill and
call CD's herring. Maybe even put a red hat on it and have that
strange Caldera dancing dude do a few steps. Sounds cute to me. We do
have a problem with S.U.S.E, though. What's with that weird green
mascot of theirs? It looks like something that didn't survive the
Cambrian die-off. Sheesh.
Finally, I would make sure that all software running on Linux comes
under the GPL. It wouldn't be that tired old GNU license you're stuck
with now. Nosirree, Bob, and by the way, I've got copies of Bob for
anyone who wants it. I'm talking about the next generation GPL. It
wouldn't leave you at the mercy of the ragtag band you put your faith
in now. No, the Gates Public License would make sure that all rights
remain exclusively under the control of the only person in this
business who really and truly understands world domination.
I can't wait to get started.
Your friend,
Bill
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Authors background:
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Dean Pannell, a.k.a. dinotrac is busily watching snow inundate his
untidy little Chicagoland hovel. As he doesn't have to drive anywhere
at the moment, the snow looks mighty nice. As to this article,
dinotrac will not reveal the source under any circumstances. Dinotrac
fully appreciates the irony of this position. :-)
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※ 修改:·linuxrat 於 Jan 21 18:06:09 修改本文·[FROM: 202.112.168.253]
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