"software developer" young billy boy ever was. He orrowed, stole and copied a lot of stuff, and he ported BASIC from one system to another (porting is, in essence, translating) and was in the right place at the right time when the head of Digital Research decided to play the bigshot and keep some folks waiting.

Be well and have a good one.

And most have transcripts at his site -
https://www.corbettreport.com/
His piece on the Fed is excellent.

I think he lives in Japan.

And yes Gates is a villain.

I'd like to pile on some stuff from my windows lint trap, thanks.

2003: Why Microsoft Allows People To Use Pirated windows

Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though, And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

How Microsoft conquered China

"He" is Mundie not Gates in the following quote. Gates hired Mundie who then hired Kissinger, and oh looky there's McKinsey:

He hired former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to advise him and open doors. And he told leaders that Microsoft wanted to help China develop its own software industry, an urgent government priority. The company even commissioned a McKinsey study for Chinese officials in 2001 that, among other things, recommended improving the protection of intellectual property.

I was an Exchange Administrator for a financial services company in another life. LOL Because I specialized in SQL, they promoted me to mail server admin, ha ha! Well that's not exactly how it went, but that's how these people used to think of their pluggable human resources. I guess they still do.

2021: At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software

At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage group is exploiting four newly-discovered flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server email software, and has seeded hundreds of thousands of victim organizations worldwide with tools that give the attackers total, remote control over affected systems.

Damned emails! I thought I was kidding when I said MSMatrix365 in another essay, but now I might not be, continuing on.

This is why I still read HN, for their comments. I didn't follow the link posted but zeroed in on the bold part. GREED before security, same as it ever was. Worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364069

We've got some information on the timeline (and a name) on one of the major exploits here:

https://proxylogon.com/

Some of the detail on where this is a mess -

The relevant security update is only offered for the latest (-1) Cumulative Update for Exchange. So you can open Windows Update and it will say "fully updated and secured", but you're not. Complicating matters,

So maybe you have a perfectly capable 24x7 tech team, but the guy who manages license acquisition is on leave today. This is how you may basically find yourself resorting to piracy to get this patched.

License acquisition for the win. Good luck.
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2030: MicrosoftOxygen 2.0
Cumulative Updates for MSOxygen25 have to be done from the licensing portal, with a valid logon.
gasp

'eugenics and bioethics' video. still very long, but as far as i could see it didn't report on gates' injecting african women with subcutaneous electronic (thus hackable) birth control devices, nor using africans, esp. women for guinea pig in experiments gone horribly awry.

but wife mellie was so grieved to see african women carrying baskets on their heads, toting two kiddies along, and having another bun in the oven. but he seems to be a proponent of ehrlich's 'population explosion' because: climte chaos, never mind that populations in the developing world have about a twentieth of the carbon footprint of the average USian, never mind the US military's footprint is the largest on the planet.

and now the the US empire includes NATO, tell us about that carbon footprint, billy!

it's a conspiracy theory to note that he'd used live polio vaccine rather than dead, with disastrous results for many kids.

i don't like him either, RR, and that's putting it mildly.