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Linus and RMS lead the popular vote for Next Microsoft CEO
- lutusp 13y agoI fell down laughing. Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman top the list? So much for popular votes.
- deviateX 13y agoThey are a kind of joke candidates, they are not in the profit-making-business however. Gabe (number 3) on the other-hand seems to be exactly the right kind of leader, he knows Microsoft and has successfully built a business from scratch -- even competing against MSFT. Clearly he is a little too outspoken, who could make Ballmer look like a quiet personality. Microsoft should probably just aquire Steam, and trial Gabe as CEO.
- notconagra 13y agoGabe's stated several times he's not remotely interested in selling to Microsoft.
- deviateX 13y agoValue is Microsoft's best option, MSFT can set the right price.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoIn all seriousness, Linus might be OK. But RMS is too purist and never practical.
- troels 13y agoYet more charismatic than their current ceo ...
- chatman 13y agoNo way, Steve Ballmer is the epitome of charisma. :-P Have you not seen the best of Ballmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU
- Argorak 13y agoFor lack of a translation: "Rampensau" is the german word for that behaviour and does neither imply nor deny charisma. He is just energetic on stage.
- p4bl0 13y agoThis makes no sense. And one could argue that they both lead big projects. But that doesn't even matter. RMS would not even remotely want to do this job. I doubt Linus Torvalds would like it either.
- Zigurd 13y agoI would not be too sure about that. RMS predicted the business model of most open source companies. If I recall correctly, he consulted to TI back in the Lisp Machine Inc. days. He was not hostile to commerce. To him, "open source" was a consequence of the nature of software. He considered it the best way, not just the right way, to do software and that it would win out in the end, which it seems to be doing at least in some categories.
- chatman 13y agoRMS can really save Microsoft, encouraging freedom for MS users. That will be the best thing MS could ever have done.
- dizzystar 13y agoVoted for RMS only because VS is the worlds worst editor.
- enry_straker 13y agoPresume you are referring to Visual Studio. It has a vi emulation plugin if that's what you are into. Given that one of RMS's baby is Emacs, i find it strange you choose to vote for the fire while hating the frying pan.
- tbirdz 13y agoGiven the fact that he was going to vote for RMS due to Visual Studio's poor editing qualities, one would assume that this user prefers editing with emacs, no?
- tphan 13y agoWhoever runs the site blows away troll votes every once in a while so hopefully Scott Hanselman comes back on top.
- vukmir 13y agoThe Internet Strikes Again At first, I laughed, but the more I think about it that may not be as crazy and hilarious as it looks like at the first sight. No matter what you think about Linus and RMS, they both have leadership qualities.
- please_advise 13y agoThat's pure nonsense.
- cvrajeesh 13y agoClear the asp.net session cookies (ASP.NET_SessionId) and vote as many times you wish !!!
- nekopa 13y agoI have always wondered what would happen if Bill Gates would turn around one day and say 'fuck it, I'm going to open source the whole kit and kaboodle.' What would it be like? Would people brave trying to fix all the problems in the windows kernel? I wonder what XP source code looks like. How many people would try to fork MS Office? Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free. Would Apple die or become larger? Would malware go through the roof, or be extinguished? What would large corporate license holders do with the savings? (would there even be that many savings in comparison to TCO?)
- oelmekki 13y ago> Bt most interesting would be what would happen to the business landscape if all MS products were free. I'm under the impression it's already part of their strategy, and it's probably a cause why most people still use windows. They know they can easily download softwares on torrent websites, and MS is pretty much tolerant about it (as far as it's about individuals, not businesses).
- johnchristopher 13y agoYou are mistaking Adobe for MS. MS is going down hard on pirates reselling their stuff to individuals or making it available online. Also you seem to imply MS let every software be torrented intentionnaly. But MS doesn't publish every software in the world and they aren't responsible, nor should they fight, for other software makers's piracy problems. It's certainly not part of their strategy. More like a pirate post-fact rationalisation line of thinking.
- nivla 13y ago> You are mistaking Adobe for MS. It's certainly not part of their strategy. Nope, they are following the same brilliant strategy as Adobe. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though," Gates told an audience at the University of Washington. "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." [1] [1] http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropiracy9 http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...
- nealabq 13y agoThey should seriously consider someone like pg. Someone with ideas.