With Windows, on the other hand, even the best hacker cannot decipher the string of 1's and 0's to find out exactly what makes your screen freeze when you try and run more than two programs at once. What I've said applies as much to Macintosh or Sun as it does to Microsoft. Free Software encourages the values of openness, co-operation and sharing. Apart from a few egotistical hackers, most of the people I've met in the Linux community have been pretty nice, and many of them have been generous enough to spend a lot of time answering what to them are inane questions from newcomers like me. They spend vast amounts of their free time writing programs in the hope that someone, somewhere, might find them useful.
Real geeks are like that.
I'm not much good at writing programs, but I can do other things, like translating Turkish or teaching ta'i chi. If someone is kind enough to give me a piece of software or advice, that encourages me to give my time and labour to somebody else. This brings me to the main reason why I hate Bill Gates. The man is not only rich and powerful, but disgustingly rich and powerful. Even if it's a lot less than this, for someone with this amount of dosh to donate a few million dollars to charity and then write an article on philanthropy is sickening.