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Open Source Letter to Bill Gates

This is a letter to Bill Gates....

It's open source, so anyone can contribute.

I will start.


Dear Bill, next year for Christmas, can you....
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code a new MS Santa for our young ones. Knowing the true brilliance of your software, I'm sure MS Santa will have to climb up the chimley and come down again before he's able to 'paste' the presents under the tree. I don't mind that, but please make sure we don't have to re-wrap the presents and un-wrap them again...

Also, please make sure there are no spelling mistakes on the software as I don't believe MS Satan make a very good impression on the kids.
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... Allthough, I have to admit MS Satan was coded considrably better than both last years MS Santa V1.9 and the current Beta version of MS Jesus.

I am somewhat perplexed at the obvious ammount of time spent on the satan project by your development team, especially when there was no clear reason for this software to be developed in the first place.

However, I would alos like to bring to your attention the small matter of...............
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....Ms Nasta and Ms Stana.... Rumours have been flying around that they are spin off projects of Ms Santa and Ms Satan- aimed at Dyslexics.

As everybody knows, dyslexia is not a fun condition, so any tools to aid in in them enjoying Satan and Santa are most welcome!

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Try not to rush your products to the market before they're ready. We don't appreciate being treated as lab rats for testing and debugging your ridiculously over-priced and inefficient software.

Also, 'Service Pack' means your guys are fucking up, it does not mean 'complimentary freebies to your valued customers'.

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like to hire goats and sheep for your QA department, unfortunately lesser mammals and some people are not very efficient at quality assurance. Please try to....
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Hire Steve Jobs. I have heard he has a great deal of knowledge about...
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...which might come in handy when you go bust and become a farmer in the Himalayas.

Speaking of which, I heard you used to be quite a sportsman before you set out to control the universe. Did you really...
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...think that you can develop an update for the universe as well? I dont think you should try because.....
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the idea of having to close it all down and open it again worries me. I takes 2 or 3 minutes for Windows XP to properly shutdown on my laptop.
What would we do if one of your bugs caused our entire universe to crash and reboot? I mean, sending an error report really wouldn't help...

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the windows bug reports that spew forth from the far reaching corners of the internet.

In conclusion,
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a stupid, incoherant, maciomastic freak.

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What happened to my post about the hamster and the poor MS QA dept?..... whoo deleted it... whooooo ?

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Hamster? QA Dept? Shame I missed that! LOL

Should we publish this?
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Sometimes i wonde rif i dream about making posts that i never actually do .... the line between reality and insanity seems so thin somedays ... sigh
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Re: Open Source Letter to Bill Gates

Dear Bill

Next year for Christmas, can you code a new MS Santa for our young ones. Knowing the true brilliance of your software, I'm sure MS Santa will have to climb up the chimley and come down again before he's able to 'paste' the presents under the tree.

I don't mind that, but please make sure we don't have to re-wrap the presents and un-wrap them again.

Also, please make sure there are no spelling mistakes on the software as I don't believe MS Satan make a very good impression on the kids allthough, I have to admit MS Satan was coded considrably better than both last years MS Santa V1.9 and the current Beta version of MS Jesus.

I am somewhat perplexed at the obvious ammount of time spent on the satan project by your development team, especially when there was no clear reason for this software to be developed in the first place.

However, I would alos like to bring to your attention the small matter of Ms Nasta and Ms Stana. Rumours have been flying around that they are spin off projects of Ms Santa and Ms Satan- aimed at Dyslexics.

As everybody knows, dyslexia is not a fun condition, so any tools to aid in in them enjoying Satan and Santa are most welcome!

I would like to request one other thing, Try not to rush your products to the market before they're ready. We don't appreciate being treated as lab rats for testing and debugging your ridiculously over-priced and inefficient software.

Also, 'Service Pack' means your guys are fucking up, it does not mean 'complimentary freebies to your valued customers'.

I heard that you like to hire goats and sheep for your QA department, unfortunately lesser mammals and some people are not very efficient at quality assurance.

Please try to Hire Steve Jobs. I have heard he has a great deal of knowledge about goats and sheep which might come in handy when you go bust and become a farmer in the Himalayas.

Speaking of which, I heard you used to be quite a sportsman before you set out to control the universe. Did you really think that you can develop an update for the universe as well? I dont think you should try because the idea of having to close it all down and open it again worries me. It takes 2 or 3 minutes for Windows XP to properly shutdown on my laptop.

What would we do if one of your bugs caused our entire universe to crash and reboot? I mean, sending an error report really wouldn't help.

I just don't think you're ready to use a computer. We will have to find you a well trained seeing eye mouse that can quide you through the minefields of the windows bug reports that spew forth from the far reaching corners of the internet.

In conclusion, I think you are a stupid, incoherant, maciomastic freak.

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Nice one Dan
Posted it on my facebook...
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