PLEASE NOTE:

This page hasn't been touched since the late 1990s. Since then, Bill Gates has relinquished the reins at Microsoft and become one of the largest philanthropists in the world, and Microsoft may finally have gotten a reasonably secure operating system out the door. And Apple is looking more and more like the Big Bad (with Google vying for the title).

It's also interesting to look back at the 1990s as a golden (or at least silver) age, when Bill Clinton was president, we were paying down our debts (on the way to a budget surplus), the only war we were fighting was on behalf of Muslims (in Bosnia), and somehow, Bill Gates seemed like the Big Bad. So I leave this page (complete with dangling links) up as a memorial for that by-gone era.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

I Hate Microsoft.

Microsoft is the focus of evil in the modern world. ^[1]

Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ.

He was also kicked out of Harvard for stealing computer time (on the DARPA-purchased PDP-10 in Aiken Computation Laboratory), back when that meant something. He used it to write commercial software, i.e. Altair BASIC.

It is interesting that most hackers hate Bill Gates not so much because he stole computer time, but rather because he wanted to *sell* software. It's all Bill's fault.

One of my favorite quotations regarding Bill Gates:

"[Bill Gates is the antichrist. He is the devourer of souls.]
And he named a whole company after his own penis. Talk about male arrogance."
--Stewart King (Harvard '96), following up a post in [Harvard local Usenet group] harvard.general

Bill Gates Stories

Bill Gates: Heaven or Hell?

Bill Gates and the End of the World

Bill Gates and Genesis

Bill Gates' Kid

Other Web Resources

General

The International Anti-Microsoft Network. They operate an anti-M$ web ring via webring.org. To see the current list of sites in that web ring, check out this site.

Humorous

Check out the Microsoft Hate Page . (Warning: their front page is a bit -- intense. The rest of it is fairly low-key, though.)
The Microsoft Boycott Campaign is pretty cool.
MicroSoft and friends
The New O'Reilly Book (okay, not really). Very very funny.
A very funny "Micorsoft Advocacy" site
I don't know whether it was intentional humor or not, but www.teamgates.com used to be hilarious. Now they're just broken.
This was either a fiendishly intricate humorous plot or the worst case of Net-based sycophantism I've ever seen. It featured the "Bill Clock", a small Windows app you could download from the site that would tell you what time it was where Bill Gates lived.
(I thought that it was pretty funny that they needed a whole application to do what any Unix version can do via the
```
TZ="PST8DT" date
```
/bin/sh command, but then again I'm an unreconstructed Unix bigot.)
I found their FAQ page (to which you could find a link from their main page, waaay down at the bottom in teeny-tiny type), which told you about the underlying hardware and software for the site. For a long time (i.e. when it worked) it was running on a Solaris 2.5 box running an Apache web server.
Now, of course, it's running NT and IIS, and it's clearly broken. There's probably a moral in here somewhere.

Serious

I recommend Roberto di Cosmo's CyberSnare, an insightful article written by someone at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS).
Matt Welsh's Boycott Microsft web site is quite good, especially the piece on the dangers of Microsoft Technology.
The Unix versus NT Organization. A very good site, especially the Kirch Paper that seems to have kicked it off.
James Gleick has an interesting set of articles about Microsoft, including my absolute favorite, Microspeak (originally published in the NY Times Magazine section in June of 1997. He also has Making Microsoft Safe for Capitalism from way back in 1995 -- it's remarkably fresh even today.
The KMFMS (Kein Mitleid Für Microsoft) site is pretty cool. For someone who isn't convinced that Microsoft is evil, it's a good introduction, especially its What's So Bad About Microsoft? page, which is chock-full of good information and links.

¹ No, I don't really think this. I think Henry Kissinger is.

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I Hate Microsoft.

Microsoft is the focus of evil in the modern world. [1]

Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ.

Microsoft is the focus of evil in the modern world. ^[1]