>Musk was ousted in October 2000 from his role as CEO due to disagreements with other company leadership, notably over his desire to move PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows. In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.
>Musk became CEO of the combined company and decided it was time for a technological overhaul. Specifically, he wanted to toss out Unix and put everything on a Microsoft platform.
>That may sound innocent enough to laypeople but not to Unix zealots like Levchin and his team. A holy war ensued. Musk lost. The board fired him and brought back Thiel while Musk was on a flight to Australia for his first vacation in years. “That’s the problem with vacations,” Musk deadpans.
If it's a question about adopting Windows or firing him, then the latter is very obviously more reasonable.
Christopher Gutierrez
like no question about it its the stupidest thing Ive ever read
his whole existing team of unix developers would be useless and needed to be let go
and they would need to pay millions to microsoft for licensing and be at mercy of their support time lines
and so much work would needed to be redone, probably thousands of men hours in development cost...
strange that the board did not have balls to call him and fire him, but do it when he leaves for vacation... seems like they feared he might do something "unpredictable"
Ethan Hall
even microsoft doesn't use windows for their big servers (bing etc) and has azure linux meme
fucking sad how dumb musk is
Brody Flores
>seems like they feared he might do something "unpredictable" Boot a Win XP live CD on their mainframe?
Ian Wright
Don't trust balding men who get hair transplants. I know several and all of them are scum.
Brody Cruz
There's literally nothing wrong with using Windows for a service platform. Tons of huge companies use it. Some of the biggest sites with the longest uptimes are running on Windows servers.
The IT staff disagreeing isn't for any technical reason, it's just because they don't know the Windows platform and fear they will either have to learn it quickly or be put out of jobs.
Logan Martinez
it was in 2000 before even win xp came out yes, its dumb in retrospect but it was less dumb back then
Asher Jackson
There is justice.
Camden Brown
The problem is that you already have a solid development and maintenance team that has competence on how to run your service on Unix. It's pants on head retarded to just throw that out the windows (pun intended) and having to start looking for a bunch of new hires.
A massive migration like that is only justifiable if there is something seriously limiting with the platform you're already running on.
Hudson Wilson
Musk is a fucking snake oil salesman. Millineials are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together about the futility of manned space missions.
He's swindling millions from billionaires to send them to their cold red graves on mars.
Caleb Russell
Winblows is almost at the forefront of a full-fledged UNIX systems styled operations for task management and interface relations working right alongside it as well. This dude sees the future. Move forward to the future oldfag.
Jeremiah Sanders
A bit funny considering he has hopped on the linux meme now
Aaron Long
But it before windows server even existed
it would have been shitty windows 2000...
Xavier Lewis
>Over 60% of top 10million servers are unix based >Over 90% of top million servers are unix based
If you want to work on the top, you learn unix.
Sebastian Evans
>He's swindling millions from billionaires to send them to their cold red graves on mars.
Whats is wrong with this?
Carter Cooper
In 2000, Linux was shit and "Unix" meant Solaris or HPUX (AIX in some rare cases), or one of the now defunct BSDs. Today, Linux has proven its worth as a the OS that powers infrastructure and high-end servers.
Evan Williams
Fraud is illegal
>inb4 why is it fraud Private industry will never launch a manned mission to Mars, it's simply too expensive.
Leo Reed
>In the middle of something that could literally mean life or death >hol up, windows server has to reboot to install updates.
Tyler Peterson
>not supporting using billionaire money to simultaneously fund space travel and genocide the 1%
Carter Roberts
Tesla isnt snake oil Its the last hope for luxury american auto everything else probably is though
Asher Cruz
Tesla looks gay and it just uses giant lipo battery so you explode when u crash
Dominic Smith
>Tesla looks gay Great argument, one to sure win the masses over.
Thomas Cruz
i don't hate musk at all - i actually like him - but i find that really, really funny. hope he learned from his mistake
Juan James
He did, he never goes on vacation any more.
(It's actually true).
Justin Lee
Wow
Austin Richardson
>implying a gas engine doesn't do the exact same thing you do know a gas engine is powered by explosions right? >looks gay For reference what do you think doesn't look gay
Logan Reyes
>283 135
Carter Wright
>longest uptimes windows servers need to be updated every patch tuesday
Zachary Howard
>Don't trust balding men who get hair transplants. I know several and all of them are scum.
This. It takes a special kind of evil.
Joshua Russell
kek
Blake Carter
fuckin african, he has to go back
Connor Cook
im starting to think Elon Musk is a "right place right time" kind of sociopath like pic related
Elijah Russell
Back in 2000 Windows was superior.
When he started tesla, he used UBUNTU
When he started Space X, he used UBUNTU
Kevin Taylor
I'm sorry the only achievement in your life is not being a Millennial, but what is worse is that a grown man like yourself is using a Millennial platform. Are you proud?
Now back to your generalizations you fucking unoriginal.
Asher Myers
>White English South African
That's about the furthest thing you can get from being an actual African.
Charles Adams
haven't you read he news? these fucking immigrants are taking our jobs, they are rapists, they are criminals.
they have to go back and do something for their own countries instead of fucking up the first world
Zachary Smith
Pretty tough to try and fix your own country when the government insists on fucking literally everything up and the actual Africans are starting to talk about literally genociding the whites.
Benjamin Davis
he is african
Cameron Watson
6/10 already been memed
Juan Garcia
And plus any white English speaking south African isn't going to come to a developed country, especially not America and start raping and stealing. Its way tucking easier to do that snit in Africa. Don't know about Mexicans or Syrians or whatever other immigrant you're thinking of but not every immigrant is a fucking mexican.
Probably take jobs but that's because from all the literature I've read employers love SAfricans work ethic.
Yeah, he technically is, but no African would ever say that he is. Almost all black Africans consider whites immigrants to begin with anyway. Elon himself wouldn't really admit it because he has such a fucking hardon for the USA.
Jacob Hernandez
>furthest thing you can get from being an actual African. >Yeah, he technically is, but no African would ever say that he is.
He's part Boer. Here's what an African said about the Boer.
I guess he learned a hard lesson, because the Tesla runs ubuntu and he opened his Tesla related patents.
Jaxson Miller
I love thunderf00t's rants about him. He makes him look like a joke.
Jonathan Sullivan
Millennial platform? Are you referering to Sup Forums? Sup Forums is not millennial you dumb cunt. Millennial shit is like twitter and facebook. Sites that became popular when first iphone came out and all dumb shits like yourself started using them 24/7
Tbqh he looks like he has some chink ancestry. Definetely not a boer
Colton Scott
135kbytes ≠ 283kbytes
Isaac Collins
>Its the last hope for luxury american auto
have you ever seen one from the inside? It's all plastic fantastic
Justin Cooper
You must be trolling. Read his Wikipedia page.
Gavin Allen
but unix, or BSD at that time, was not
Charles Torres
Sounds to me like musk wanted to use Windows for no good reason, tbqh
Carter Cruz
Oh, that's why he looks so strange
Matthew Sanchez
>didn't read the article
Xavier Ramirez
I did the relevant parts, do tell whats the problem, they didnt went technical, other than unix based infrastructure
Landon Diaz
Oh, yeah, the same president that sung "Shoot the Boer" and got famous for singing "Umshini Wami" (bring me my machine gun) at ANC rallies over the past few years.
I mean, he's speaking to a room full of powerful Afrikaans businesspeople and shit. What do you think he's going to say?
Elon is the son of a British father and I have no idea where Maye Musk comes from other than she was born in Canada but lived mostly in Pretoria. That's pretty fucking far from full blown Boer. Hell his biography states that part of the reason he got bullied so badly in school was that he simply didn't fit in with his predominantly Afrikaans class (the book calls it the "Hypermasculine" culture"). I doubt he even speaks Afrikaans except for the cursory understanding he would have gotten from school.
Ryan Barnes
You're the dumb cunt, there's no snake oil you fucking degenerate. Tesla makes the fastest car in the world, safest car in the world, and most efficient car in the world and you call it snake oil. SpaceX has 8b in launches coming down the line but that's not real either? Or how about we sit here, no way to get to space, and see an asteroid headed for earth? Then we might have a couple weeks to build a rocket to GTFO but it will be too late. You are so fucking retarded it makes me sick.
Fucking Amerifats, when will they learn. I could bash your face in with a shovel and you'd deny that happened too?
Jose Howard
>people finally realizing Musk is just a schmuck that got lucky
The only reason he has any success now is because of the capital he got from being a founder of paypal, and the people that got close to him because of it.
He's a hack, but he's a hack with a shit ton of money, surrounded by very intelligent people.
Ethan Howard
Correction: meant to say part Boer. At most he's maybe got a tiny part of Afrikaner from some way off relation in him but I can't remember his biography saying anything about it.
Zachary Allen
come on man cut him some slack going for making tesla and space-x needed some balls he had some own money to invest, but I bet there were people he convinced to invest he make shit actually happen
and in 2000 it might not be as apparent as now how large scale IT infrastructure would develop
Dylan Taylor
>Sounds to me like >tbqh nice redundancy
Ethan Collins
Space-x was a shit heel side project until NASA figured out they could shift some liability onto a private company, and dumped a ton of fucking money and talent on to the company.
Tesla was a mistake,
The hyperloop was just hypeloop, even he didn't back it but was more than happy to be thought of as the one that thought up his genius infeasible plan.
The giga factory is the only truly successful self-driven project musk has. And not for the planned purpose he originally intended. Most of the cells are going to go to solar, not cars, for at least the next 5-10 years
Isaiah Taylor
>futility of manned space missions. Are you actually too fucking stupid to believe that there have been manned space missions?
Colton Hill
All you Musk fanboys need to understand that he's the Steve Jobs of this generation. Ten years from now everyone is going to know what a cock sucker he is, and how his success has been garnered at others' expense. And the only way to viably praise him will be to praise the way he took credit for other people's successes.
I don't think he's disagreeing with the reality of manned space missions, just the purpose they serve. Manned space missions are useless, but the technology that develops in order to make them feasible drives the human race forward as a whole so I'm on the fence about pursuing space travel.
Jack Reed
Yeah, see you in about 6 years.
First non-manned payload is leaving in 2017 bitch.
Bentley Ramirez
>Most of the cells are going to go to solar, not cars, for at least the next 5-10 years The entire purpose of buying SolarCity is to marry the solar powering with the Tesla EV. It doesn't need to be on the car, it goes on your roof and you plug it into the car.
it also makes it cheaper for him to fill the country with Superchargers.
all successful businesses are "right place right time"
Adrian Moore
>als are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together about the futility of manned space missions. >He's swindling millions from billionaires to send them to their cold red graves on mars.
wow this gotta be the most stupidest thing i heard all week
Charles Stewart
typical businessman > stubborn on outlines > stupid on details
Daniel Edwards
Why are there so many Musk haters on Sup Forums? Did breitbart do a damning expose, or was it infowars?
Elon Musk literally is one of the most inspirational people walking around on this planet right now, stay mad aspies
Isaac Jackson
I meant the electric car line, he got lucky with his batteries being usable in other shit.
The American military industrial complex wastes money? Whoa, I had no idea. They're now hiding a lot of that spending by running certain aerospace developments through space-x projects.
no shit.
Nah there's just one or two of us. But we do a lot of hating between us.
Augh maybe who knows. But I'm an Afrikaner and I know the schools he went to and they're all for entitled rich fucks. And I see through his mannerisms that makes everyone like him because he seems slightly foreign, and I can see what a sociopath the fuck is.
What I don't get is why so many people love him. Is it this deep seated need to believe in the myth of the 'good hearted business man' how a little luck and hard work can get you to the same place. And that everyone struggles no matter who you are? Please this guy started with money and he got lucky and now he's got a fucking ton of it.
Alexander Garcia
>He's swindling millions from billionaires to send them to their cold red graves on mars.
I would gladly pay to die on Mars.
Justin Turner
Good, because he doesn't mean to swindle billionaires, he's hoping to target people like you!
For the price of a small house you can now die on another planet.
"Going to mars is a great idea, believe me, I'm the only one selling trips, totally worth it!" and you fucks eat that shit up. Ha. I hope they live stream the first batch of you tossers having your lungs come out through your face.
Ayden Parker
yes he is and we found out he was kinda stupid when he was 29 and got fired for it its juicy little factoid Jake
Eli Cruz
The point being he had to sue to be able to bid on the projects which he then drastically undercut, saving taxpayer billions as well as exposing additional billions in either corruption or waste. Whereas you implied Musk was the major boondoggle. But I'm sure you'll just keep derping your derp, as it seems you feel entitled to your own facts as well as opinions.
Camden Rogers
yet his tesla runs ubuntu
Aiden Taylor
>boondoggle >derp
Jesus, read a book.
But I digress, you have a point that the country now spends less on similar projects, but you do understand that he did this to benefit himself right? This is no humanitarian for-the-people mission he's on. You mudsling a competitor and undercut them to steal their business. The spending dropping is a side-effect of him getting the contracts.
You're missing my point, which is that he is a visionary in so far as any capitalist mogul is a visionary. That they see a gap in the market, not that they are driving the human race forward to some utopian ideal. His PR is pushing this agenda hard but I don't buy it. And I urge you not to either. This guy is as altruistic as a coat hanger.
Benjamin Sanders
YOU must be trolling. Look at his fucking face and tell me he doesnt look part chink
Ryder Bell
and now Tesla have Ubuntu based infotainment.
Wyatt Collins
I did a work placement at HP when they were still using HP-UX for pretty much everything.
Half the software they were using was Windows stuff running on Wine.
They switched to Windows NT later that year.
Easton Moore
You are the kind of cuck that stayed starving in Europe instead of exploring America because it was too dangerous.
Luis Cruz
All we really care about is the top 1%, as 99% of those sites are small and/or make no money.
Evan Parker
>actually falling for the bait
When did Sup Forums become this autistic?
Jose Bell
>stay home in Europe is being a cuck >leaving your wife behind to spend months, if not years, on a boat with a bunch of sailors and semen while someone else fucks your wife is not being a cuck
