Such a vacuous comment it's hard to know what to say. None of the people you listed can work for free all the time. So just writing checks would mean he gets a lot of the credit because he's making it happen. But the cool thing about Gates is that he's not just writing checks. He's very hands on and has a lot of influence to direct action throughout the world. Yes, those other people deserve a lot of credit too but making sure billions of dollars are spent effectively is harder than it sounds and he will go down in history as someone who did a lot more good than bad with his time on earth.

Started to reply but then I realized you posted AC so you don't deserve a good response.

The MIT license. Are you certain that was your only question?

You're stuck in the past.

Bill is too busy saving lives to care about what you think of him. MS is still making money hand over fist and doing an impressive job adjusting to the changing landscape it finds itself on. They are clearly not going the way of Sun any time soon.

Um, that first quote is mine but the second one isn't so you can't really accuse me of backpedaling. I was chiming in with my own opinion, not agreeing 100% with the above AC.

My point was that just because we can't solve the whole thing we shouldn't give up on trying to make improvements.

Most gamers are over 18 so there's no reason to suspect that this is just the work of kids. But even for the kids there are plenty of things that can be done and you're presenting a false choice in thinking that if we can't "solve" the problem than we shouldn't try. We'll never solve it but through education and public discourse we can reduce the problem for sure.

Nice attempt at a side-step. Obviously children would be treated differently under the law. It's the adults that do this that should be arrested and prosecuted / fined. And we need to very clearly teach children that this type of behavior is wrong.

Rhode Island is tiny.
Next time maybe they'll have it in a larger state.

I was very close to getting the GPS fitbit and I'm glad I didn't because this was $50 cheaper and does more. I'll also add that the health niche is probably much larger than the group of people who want a watch that connects to their phone so they don't have to pull it out of their pocket. This product has a clear purpose and is clear about the customer it targets. Maybe that's not you but judging by the lines they generated with almost zero notice and the fact that the admittedly limited supply sold out in a day suggests that there is untapped market potential here.

I know it seems crazy but the Apple watch doesn't have GPS. Microsoft did it right.

Yeah, same is true for my GPS watch. I know that it *can* make it through a few runs but anxiety over it running out mid run forces me to charge it every day.

Oh, it relies on winding. It's that the winding happened so long ago people don't think of it in those terms.

I hate Apple as a company. Look through my past comments and you'll see that I bash them probably even more than they deserve. Yet, even I think this is a silly argument. We aren't coming full circle. It's more like we're just further along on a spiral staircase. Our positions may seem to line up in a superficial way (winding / charging) but the circumstances and what you get for the effort is are very different.

So Microsoft is the Batman?

All app stores are a mess.