So, Bill Gates is to be knighted, eh? Presumably for his contributions to anti-competitive business practice?
Or perhaps it's for his unstinting work in keeping the Communists at bay. (Or the Open Source community, as you may know it.) And if he's had to tell a pack of lies to do this, what of it? Cough*bastard*cough.
Bill the spam-killer is another joke. Besides, at least one good anti-spam solution already exists: SpamBayes caught 70 spams for me this morning, with no false positives, none missed, and seven unsures. Superb. You going to beat that, Bill? Sorry, Sir Bill?
And if you think you are going to start charging me to send email, Sir Bill, you can feck off. You don't own the Internet.
From Slashdot: We want to be the first proprietary vendor to copy the methods of the Open Source solutions to the Spam Problem.
Posted to Business by Simon Brunning at January 26, 2004 01:08 PMHis bright idea - "If you send an email and someone at the other end bounces it, you get charged". Bollocks to that. I worked at a company that developed a very good system, but 2-3 years ago no one cared - I won't bore everyone with how it worked :-)
Posted by: sam on January 26, 2004 02:24 PMWell, its not as if honours haven't been bought and sold for centuries.
Although the though of a Labour government handing out plaudits to a convicted (private) monopolist is quite amusing. Definitely another nail in socialism's coffin.
Posted by: Andy Todd on January 26, 2004 02:36 PMIt's all very well to go on and on about all the things that Bill has done for us, but do you think Bill should be knighted or not?
:)
Posted by: Alan Green on January 27, 2004 05:47 AM