Question of the Week!

Alright, based on the results of this: http://www.antionline.com/showthread...998#post605998

...And the fact that it's monday.

The Triumphant Return of the Question of the Week!!!

If you could be B|LL G@T3s for one day, what would you do?

p.s. Yes, you get complete control of both m*soft and his $$$.

I'd make everything OpenSource and give 90% of my $ to charities...

During that day I would transfer control of M$ and all his money to me...... :D

I would donate all my money to nasa in exchange for a free spot on the first mars mission and a place on the first mars colony for the rest of my life, i can't wait to leave this retarded planet.

A-Hahahah...good one, Tiger Shark. I like your idea, too, Tampabay.

Honestly, I'd take about a billion dollars, give half of that to a few charities then buy a house in Sante Fe, NM and one in Nova Scotia. In each house I'd set up an awesome network, program all day, and volunteer my time to whomever needs it.

I would also transfer couple millions $'s to my personal account. Then I would get a admin access to their network and allow an anonymous FTP-access to their sourcecode.ms.com -server :)

Rest of the day I would spend driving around US with some sports car and eating fastfood at McDonald's..

I don't know if I'd make windows open source.. a lot of people out there would do good and patch the holes found. but I think MS products are like icebergs... only 10% is visible... so what about the other 90% of the wholes.. that's a lot of exploiting for the evil people out there to do... But I would make all MS Products free.... Then I'd be myself a McLaren F1 for every day of the week, I'd buy the playboy mansion and all the playboy bunnies and have the worlds sweetest network installed in there... then I'd put a billion in my bank account and give away the rest.

I would take five million dollars and with the rest I would work to eradicate every version of windows me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd probably buy 20 or so Alienware PC/laptops...

...buy some small remote island who's government is dying anyway...

...buy a few slave-women...

...and yeah...

/me daydreams....

I would buy the next US election for ralph nader ,keep a million or two and give the rest to the needy of the world .

I'd write a memo titled: "No more beta testing our products on paying customers"

03/03/03
or 11/11/11 (if you prefer binary)

Attn: All staff.

Effective immediately, a new policy is in effect. We at Microsoft will no longer sell crap. To paraphrase Orson Wells' plug for Paul Mason- We shall sell no software before it's time. This means rigorous testing and quality control procedures shall be implemented.

I have seen the error of my ways. It is wrong to foist upon the general public bug-riddled software and expect them to find our sloppy coding- usually on production, critical servers. From this point on, we not only shall we do our own testing internally, but we shall reduce the price of our entire product line to fair levels. Our entire licensing scheme shall be reworked to be competitive and non-exclusionary. We shall no longer push our products as a single solution, and will quit exploiting integrators and pressuring our vendors to use our product line exclusivly. We shall embrace open source software as technically superior and try to learn from the progress made, instead of belittling it publicly.

Finally, as a last gesture of magnamosity, all employees may stop calling me "My Dark Overlord" when addressing me, and instead may call me "Mr. Gates."

William Gates,
Dark Overlord and Founder
Microsoft Corporation





Then I'd make sure my kids had enough money stashed away for college, and probably buy myself a new motorcycle.
:D

I would install secret backdoors and trojans in all versions of windows,
and use them to gain total mastery of the known universe....
but I guess he's already doing that.
:cool:

Oh you mean that Bill hasn't aready install secret back doors into Windows...??? hmmmm

Anyway.... I would do away with Digital Right Management.... and Palladium Project. I would also change the direction of the corporation to be more open source... I would give software away for free when there is a competitor on the market that has a better product then I did (opps I already did that... sorry netscape)

4% of my money would be donated to Antionline while 67% would go to **** (Save Homosapiens In Turmoil). The final 29% shall be given to anyone who can open up my monitor using only there bare hands and a screw driver, nothing else. I would also transfer all of my stock to Linux and build my own ice glacier naming it "Silicon". Extending my hand to Fidel Castro to traffic cigars over the U.S. would also be my top priority.

i too would take a couple billion dollars and build some nice houses, maybe buy a small island in the carribean. Have a hut like the one in Thomas Crown affair. Then I think i would buy a couple of really nice computers, get a real internet connection running into my house. Buy my own gym, and some really good steaks. mmmm. yeah that sounds good

Man what a good question! One day huh? hmmm...steal all of his servers and live comfortable off the money I made in that one day!.....hell I could live off the interest alone!

i would restructure Microsoft by firing the thousands of worthless software engineers who build features for MS Word that nobody ever uses and reinvest that money in validation. i'm a hardware engineer and our culture is to get it right the first time. thanks to Microsoft the software culture is more like "get it out with lots of stupid features, and make them pay for the bug fixes."

i wouldn't give all the money away, because the money's not sitting in a bank somewhere. if you give it away you will bankrupt the hundreds of companies he owns major shares in and probably drop the stock market a few hundred points. just my two trillion cents on the matter.

I'd pay people to perform halluciantions for me....

"Hehehe.....Could you put another midget in that blender?"

I've read some pretty good posts here. Very inventive.

If I was Gatesy for a day - I'd kill myself

BUT not before I left an ammendment to my will:- Money & ALL ASSETS go to Viperboy, Aust.

I would stop manufacturing windows and start selling linux while giving windows as
a freebie with Linux

I'd hire loadsa female strippers, have a beach party and then create an Anti-Paperclip buddy for Word, so they could fight..
"Hi! It looks like you're writing a lett... WHY?? WHY?!? Why was I programmed to feel pain??" :D