Capitalism?... OMG I was with you until you brandish capitalism as a bad thing. UNIX worked!, and does! Still! Simpler versions of it like Linux still do well. I'm an old fart too, and I despise systemd. But you know what? I'm not averse to trying new things. Yes Ubuntu led a lot of people into the UNIX world, that maybe shouldn't have come. It's still on my resume: "UNIX Systems Developer". I'm on the fence on systemd... I haven't played with it enough to care. The most recent Kali release has it because it's now in Debian. All I can say to the new farts is twofold: 1) Do one thing and do it well! and 2) Those who don't understand UNIX, will be DOOMED to re-invent it! POORLY! (see any windows product from the last 20 years.... I have a scheduler and I just reinvented cron but it doesn't work as well and I have to reboot my system every day)

I agree. But Bill Gates STOLE it. Remember stacker! He STOLE technology he didn't invent or purchase or license. Microsoft has done this over and over again. It's not competition it's theft. I witnessed this. I was there. I haven't any desire for rich people to be pilloried. Most people that are rich earned it, or their parents did and I've no problem with that. I have a problem with outright theft and using the legal system as a weapon, which Microsoft has done since its inception. That's my point.

Wow! Why do we keep having this discussion? We begin with the premise that Income Inequality is something that is bad! Then Bill F*ing Gates posits his incompetent opinion on a FALSE PREMISE. He's incompetent by design, not by predatory and collusive governmental crony capitalism. We don't need to disparage capitalism in its purest form. We need to despise people like Bill Gates, who, while raping and stealing his way to the top of the pyramid, disparage everyone and raises the straw man of "income inequality!" The only reason there is such a thing is because he invented it! Steal and sue everyone you can and yea there's a huge income inequality. That is not the problem. The problem is unethical assholes like him who steal products, troll patents, and then sue anyone and everyone they can. Then to avoid prosecution or further lawsuits, they form a flimsy charity and pretend to be egalitarian by whining about the same inequality of income they pursued. Let's stop painting Bill Gates as egalitarian or the technological genius he isn't. Let's paint him as the egomaniacal asshole he is. He always will be. Even if he gives back every ill-gotten stolen technology he profited from. We're still waiting for the mea culpa Bill Gates. And we'll be waiting until you die.

Those who don't understand UNIX, are DOOMED to reinvent it! POORLY!

That was well paragraphed and formatted. But was my first comment on slashdot... maybe I need to read up on formatting.

Bill Gates is an evil moron. I've dealt with Microsoft and been punished by it over and over again. This man professes "Income Inequality" while BANKING on not only his evil crap in the early 80's to get his IBM contract and then using his father's lawsuit skills to virtually destroy any company that made anything better than his. He's NEVER innovated anything other than a lawsuit, and crushing companies that make better products. If he can't crush them under lawsuits, he settles out of court or buys them. Bill Gates is the epitomy of UNCHECKED CAPITALISM (ALBEIT WITHOUT HONORABLE INTENTIONS). There is not any problem with "UNCHECKED CAPITALISM" with the caveat that people do business honorably, but this man, Bill Gates, is everything wrong with our current economy, and politics. He should have no say on anything technological, nor anything future seeking because he is incompetent, but well paid. Bill Gates invented little but sued a lot! This man earned nothing but creating the patent-trolls we have today. He created a version of BASIC, and then sued everyone he could until his father got him the licensing deal for MS-DOS with IBM. Let's start at the beginning. By having his buddies/father at IBM license a shitty version of a disk filing system he called MS-DOS ... he got his foot in the door and dominated the PC market, crushing superior products like the Amiga, the Macintosh, and the Atari. All had 32-bit operating systems, while MS-DOS was still stuck on keeping Intel alive. It's sad! An inferior product takes the win. Here it is over 30 years later and this asshole after having succumbed to BILLIONS of dollars in settlements with AT&T, American Express, Bank of America, still deems that he's the right person to lecture us on capitalism? Microsoft STILL TODAY LIVES AND BREATHES LAWYERS! AND MOST OF THOSE LAWSUITS THEY'VE LOST! Think stacker and msdos 6.0. If they can't reproduce the product they steal it, if they succeed in stealing they sue into oblivion. If they can't steal it, they buy it and destroy it, like they did with hotmail. Does anyone have a hotmail account anymore... and are you still happy with it? (1998). When you can't produce something worthwhile, you create a Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt campaign, like they did with Windows NT... "with UNIX reliability". And when that didn't work they entered into a contract with AT&T to share source code..., stole AT&T's latest version of UNIX and never reciprocated with 4.0 of WIN NT, thus settling "out of court for an undisclosed sum"... I know that sum. $35 BILLION to be accounted over 20 years! That was just AT&T... but American Express got a similar settlement when Microsoft couldn't reproduce the back end of Speedy Low Fare Search, a product that completely surpassed travelocity and expedia. So let's not mince words, Microsoft and Bill Gates have always been predatory capitalists. I don't mind predatory capitalists per se, if your predatory methods are innovation and marketing. My problem is that Microsoft and Bill Gates, used the legal system, outright stole proprietary code, sued when found guilty, and then settled out of court after the companies were destroyed or assimilated, thereby destroying or delaying innovation and the true human spirit of creation. Microsoft is so frigging evil, it's difficult to express... their patent-trolls are stealing money from every android samsung phone sold. Am I invested with them... sadly yes... you can hardly avoid doing so, given all the mutual funds today. Here's a note to Bill Gates if he's listening: Shut the fuck up and go sit on your billions and don't lecture us about what is inequality or honorable. You've never been honorable in your life, as you've stolen more than you've given, and destroyed more than you created. You're a cur, Worry about the middle classes and taxes when you give back all the funds you acquired by bribery, theft, and graft. Just my opinion! REMEMBER STACKER!