On May 16, 12:39=A0pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 16, 12:27 pm, David Johnston <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:05:24 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
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> > <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >On May 16, 11:57 am, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> On May 16, 10:34 am, DarkMatter <darkmatte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> >Bill Gates got rich because he is very
> > >> > gifted in software,
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> > >> Bill Gates hasn't written any software. He's stolen everything he's
> > >> used. Bill Gates got rich because his father was a cor****ation
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> > >> and, from his teens, old Bill Gates was obsessed with enforcing
> > >> copyright law on software. Which is exactly what Bill Gates has
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> > >> his career doing -- enforcing copyright law on software he stole
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> > >> other people. Bill Gates is a manipulator, a parasite and a
> > >> monopolist. Capitalist S***.
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> > >> [JG] I;m no fan of Gates, but you're flat out wrong. Gates bought
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> > >> OS
> > >> from Digital Research, fair and square. DR was dumb, Gates was
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> > >> and if
> > >> you have any character in you at all, you want smart to be
rewarded.
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> > >> He then sold the OS to IBM as the OS for the first PC, started
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> > >> the
> > >> royalty checks, and the rest is history.
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> > >> JG
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> > >I'm sorry. I believe that's exactly what I just said.
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> > Except for the part about buying things not being stealing. - Hide
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> Depends on the conditions of purchase.
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> [JG] Unless you can show that Gates held a gun to DR's head, the
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> Gates is a monopolist.
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> [JG] Irrelevant.
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> Microsoft just tried to "buy" Yahoo, very much against the will of its
> CEO, Jerry Yang. =A0Yang had to fight them off. =A0With considerable
> difficulty.
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> [JG] All perfectly legal. You're confusing what you don't like with
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> immoral and/or illegal.
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You're confusing what's legal with what's moral.
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