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Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

TheTruth — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:37:00 -0000

"Very" immoral? Do you mean more immoral than illegal insider trading? More immoral than treating your employees like sh!#? Maybe even more immoral than hubristic egoism?

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

TheTruth — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:37:00 -0000

"Very" immoral? Do you mean more immoral than illegal insider trading? More immoral than treating your employees like sh!#? Maybe even more immoral than hubristic egoism?

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

bubulina — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:08:00 -0000

Quite on the contrary: it's deeply sad and contemptible that, after "using" for years his ex-girl-friend, he now dismisses her. It's very immoral!

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

Simonnyj (just kidding) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:16:00 -0000

Check my new wife Lisa Persdotter. She is only 28 years old and looks pretty: http://pics.livejournal.com...

I am still taller though when wearing my Timberlands boots.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

Mike Koss — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:49:00 -0000

I think Charles deserves the "father of Office" title. He lead the application development group from the earliest days and was involved in DOS (yes), Mac, and Windows versions before moving into his true passion - software engineering tools (http://go2.me/8g).

Certainly, he did not write the most code in the GUI projects - but he was a contributing developer and manager through the late 80's.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

right place at the right time — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:08:00 -0000

Simonyi's a smart guy but his involvement in Office is overstated in Wikipedia.

He was the main architect behind the DOS versions of MS-Word and Multiplan, the forerunners, or more accurately distant ancestors, of what's now in Office.

Simonyi was not actively involved in making Office successful.

He was a smart guy from Xerox PARC who arguably kickstarted Microsoft's application business and was handsomely rewarded in stock options.

The father of Microsoft Office he is not.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

misha — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:52:00 -0000

Gross. Dirty old fart. She married a fat wallet.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

jj — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:29:00 -0000

I believe that Bill travels NetJets... he's in their ads now with Warren B.

Re: Bill Gates attends Swedish nuptials of pal Charles Simonyi

mathew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:19:00 -0000

i like how billg apparently flew commercial rather than private to sweden - otherwise he wouldn't have been walking through kastrup.