The Canonization of St.Bill | The Register

The Canonization of St.Bill | The Register:

If William Henry Gates the Third's philanthropic work leads to him being canonized one day as the first secular saint of our times, I won't stand in the way of the celebrations. Geeks get things very out of proportion, and the value of saving even one life should be more apparent to everyone than the cost of a poorly written Windows USB stack. When Microsoft is criticized, while the practices of arms dealers, pharmaceutical companies and extraction cartels around the world are ignored, its reminds us that some nerds place a very low value on human life itself.

40 million lines of code in windows XP. 7 billion people on a planet rated able to only feed 'most' of them. We have way too many people and way too complex systems at our disposal, and a buggy few of each of them give us faulty USB stacks or American dictator families using money from the last global menace to create a new one.

Sorry, Mr Oslowski, but you'll have to prove your point about the value of people a bit more. I know that the value of a line of code is very low, despite that there are less of them around, so you just need ot show me that people have more value than computer code, when either is taken as a mob.