Reply #2: I don't have to buy computers because of Bill Gates. [View All]

[hunter]

When peoples' Windows machines get old and cranky and full of software cruft and viruses, and are unable to handle the latest Windows release, people give their computers away.

I wipe these machines and install Linux on them and they're better than when they were new. And free.

Bill Gates is a business shark, but I respect him. If he pulls this off, good for him. It'll give us something to do with all the old used nuclear fuel, old weapons material, and depleted uranium that's just sitting around waiting to get lost or abused.

There are probably leaner more elegant ways to approach the same problem (molten salt reactors and the like...) just as there are quicker leaner operating systems than Windows for computers, but I'll say: Go Bill!