On May 16, 12:50=A0pm, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jerry Kraus" <jkraus_1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 16, 12:39 pm, "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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> > > >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
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> > > >> 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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> > > >> from Digital Research, fair and square. DR was dumb, Gates was
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> > > >> you have any character in you at all, you want smart to be
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> > > >> He then sold the OS to IBM as the OS for the first PC, started
> > > >> ca****ng
> > > >> 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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> > of purchase are irrelevant. Two willing parties entered into a
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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. Yang had to fight them off. With considerable
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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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> [JG] Never do. All of the above is also moral.
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Ah, another Capitalist who is incapable of error as long as he is
making money. I could see you'd relate well to Gates.
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