I feel that Bill Gates should be awarded the Nobel Prize for science. a) How do you like the qn b) why not?

Question

for revelutionary innovations in Computer world Microsoft founder Bill Gates deserves awards like the Knighthood, Nobel prize. Also he is showing keen interest in social activities like AIDS, health programmes. Why this is not happening ? Whether Nobel prize committee is not able to file his inventions into the standard categories like Physics or Chemistry ? or the American competition is such that there are many other equivalent products that he is one among the many ? Another basic question is should Nobel committee increase its scope towards computers, space, bio=engineering, nano-technology etc. etc.

Answer 1

Absolutely not. Bill Gates and Microsoft have done no science and very little innovation. He was just in the right place at the right time and happened to have a crude, minimal operating system when IBM wanted one. He started out being shrewd in business. He moved on to being anticompetitive, coercive, an extortionist and a bully. He made no social contribution until he was shamed into it. Even then, his giving in proportion to his wealth was miniscule. You really should learn something about him.

The Nobel Prize should be for a field of science. The so-called peace prize has been a farce more than it has been meaningful. There are other awards for engineering and innovation.

Answer 2

The 'Nobel Prize for Science' does not exist. That's the first hole in your argument. There are Nobel Prizes for Physics and for Chemistry, but Gates has made no contribution to these fields.
In any case, the Nobel prize is awarded to people who have made revolutionary scientific discoveries. Gates has not made any discoveries at all. He has merely applied and refined existing technology in a lucrative way.
His achievements may have been impressive, but they are not even close to the kind of thing that Nobel Prizes are supposed to reward. You have completely misunderstood the point of them.

Answer 3

There is no Noble prize for technology but a bigger problem is...Bill Gates has never made ANY innovations.

None. Not one. Zero. Zip. Nada. Rien.

He did not write DOS, he bought it. He copied graphical user interfaces from Apple (who copied them from Xerox). He copied the spreadsheet from Lotus. He copied the word processor from (guess who) Apple again. The list goes on.

In fact, Microsoft has generally been well behind the technology curve and remains so (Windows Vista still does not have the security and stability that UNIX had over 40 years ago).

Of course, this has been a strength. The mass market is not at the technology cutting edge.

Answer 4

Or we could award him the Alternative Nobel prize, the first part of which involves shoving a stick of dynamite up his *ss. You can guess the second part.

Answer 5

I tought so...

Nobel should be cover all aspect humanity that we can achieve. And it's must be relevant to this present.

I think Microsoft can make International nation where we really don't have border to connect each other.

Like right now, we can share oppinion with everyone on this planet while we work. Hope peace reveal on earth, thanks to Microsoft.

Cheers

Answer 6

Its too problematic to make Bill Gates one of the man in Science... He NEVER contribute any thing about PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY!!! :P