On 10/7/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Anyway, I cleaned up the Bill Gates article a bit - let me know you
think :).
This doesn't belong in the opener:
"Bill Gates is often characterized as the quintessential example of a
super-intelligent nerd <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd> with immense
power. This has in turn led to pop
culture<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture>stereotypes of Gates
as a
tyrant <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant> or evil
genius<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_genius>commanding power over
an all-powerful
empire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire> of technology and programming.
Several films and television shows have portrayed either the real Bill Gates
or a fictionalized version of him, often according to these cliches."
It gives far, far too much weight to a superficial caricature that sometimes
appears in yellow rags. The body of the article also reminds me in places of
a Citizen Kane-style caricature--I almost expect it to come complete with
sentences like "So onward marches the progress of the planet's greatest
plutocrat!"
The article downplays some of the major facts of Gates' career. IBM and
MSDOS are not mentioned. The word "antitrust" is not present in the article.
There is no mention of the fact that Gates founded Corbis, now owner of the
largest digital image collection in the world. It's still crap.