[WikiEN-l] a valid criticism

Fri Oct 7 11:23:25 UTC 2005

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Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 10/7/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Anyway, I cleaned up the Bill Gates article a bit - let me know you
>>think :).
> 
<snip>
> 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.

Time to say what should have been said to Nicholas Carr in the first place:

{{sofixit}}

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