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by sgift 5003 days ago
That is Bill Gates as a Borg - see first image here: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/borg

A pun on the Borg motto "resistance is futile" with regard to Microsofts dominance in pc space at the time.

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Ah yeah, that makes sense. Thanks. I remember those days all too clearly. Everyone assumed that because Microsoft dominated Desktop computing that they would be able to leverage that into any future platforms. Even then, the higher usage of Apache over IIS offered some hope.