Some nights Bill Gates boots into Linux, stares at the terminal, and remembers he used to enjoy computers.

@fribbledom

Bill Gates boots into Linux, looks at the terminal and thinks, how the fook do I monetise this?

@fribbledom Bill Gates SSH’s into a Linux machine from Epsteins’ island

@fribbledom I think Uncle Bill had a lot of fun back in the IBM days, when he managed to corner a giant twice starting from nothing. But trying to take a bite out of Linux turned out to be bad business, and sooner or later they will have to consider offering services and becoming open source where there is no alternative. In the long run, their model seems critical to me.

@enigma

From what I remember Microsoft was merely a licensee, not the creator of Xenix.

@enigma

So Bell created it and Microsoft is merely a licensee. Got it.

@enigma

You seem to really be into Xenix 🤣

I'd argue that porting it to other platforms is more like the translation of a book. It won't make you become the author.

@fribbledom well, he's only got himself to blame....