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michaeldouglas123@hotmail.com (michael douglas) wrote in message news:<e0a6a7af.0402071931.19497ce0@posting.google.com>...
> "Ang" <adduci@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<Ct_Ub.1548$WY4.980952@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> > But he/they didn't CREATE BASIC....just their version of it.
> > Didn't CREATE C.
> > Didn't CREATE C++.
> > Didn't CREATE SQL...HTML....XML..BROWSERS...Windowing....etc
>  No they did not but Ang Ducci did create all those sw.
> > 
> > Took features of Java and C++ and "made" C#.
> > 
> > In fact, what has MS ever  CREATED. They bought, stole, renamed and copied
> > their way to the top.
> What did they steal?
> They have copied features but every company eventualy does?
> All car companies have automatic transmissions, steering wheel etc
> 

The patent laws have not been designed to prevent
"embracing-and-extending" other people's ideas without paying them
royalty. Think of the (patent) law as an ass -and bill gates as the
beneficiary of it kicking in the wrong direction.
 MSFT has been found guilty of:-
1. stealing stac corp's code
2. infringing on a patent for digital rights management
3. engaging in anti-competitive practices by forcing OEMs to include
microsoft browser amd exclude netscape navigator. ref. that line "we
will cut off netscape's air supply".
 Besides this, he has also been accused of entering into an MoU with
small s/w firms and then stealing their code and not paying them
anything. Every s/w firm with an iota of brainpower is a threat to the
corp that has none. Not paying them does not affect their bottom line
-not driving them out of s/w business can, and hence their actions.

regards
-kamal

> > 
> > They even had the balls to take the common word NET and make it into a
> > product.
> Like other corps did not. International is a common word Business is a common
> word, Machine is a common word.
> Java is an island. Miramba is an instrument. What is the point?
> > 
> > That alone should tell everyone what MS is about.
> > 
> > Gates was a geek who made it on he business sense not programming.
> > 
> > 
> > "Richard Hutnik" <richardhutnik@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:37bc9e37.0402061220.208dbd9e@posting.google.com...
> > > "David Fabian" <david.m.fabian@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > > > "Tom_O" <tom_overton_1968@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>  news:b4d9ceca.0402051522.6bf0936c@posting.google.com...
> > > > > yf@ziplip.com (Your Friend) wrote in message
>  news:<be064478.0402050829.5fce17bf@posting.google.com>...
> > > > >
> > > > > Bill Gates(who himself is a programmer)
> > > >
> > > > You are too kind ... what programming did Bill Gates ever do
> > > > (besides a few funky programs in high school)?
> > >
> > > Gates developed Microsoft Basic, and his team developed other
> > > programming languages also.  He is the reason why "Ready" in basic got
> > > changed to "Ok" (it saved a few bytes).
> > >
> > > Gates is a techie geek, but also he has business sense.
> > > - Richard Hutnik