🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:12:33 -0700, Kelly Bert Manning
<ua602@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Alan Baker wrote:
>> 
>> Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 
>> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 
>> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
>> 
>> You know, if you're going to make a statement like that, you might want 
>> to at least pick an example that _supports_ it.
>
>I just did. The 2 persons who came out at the top of the computer industry
>fortune heap inherited millions before they ever got out of high school.
>Gates likes to claim that he didn't use family money, but Bill Gates II
>set him up with his buddies for the financing and his mother just happened
>to be on the national board of united way with the IBMer who had signing
>authority for DOS. Small contry, isn't it.
>> 
>> Whatever wealth Bill Gates (III) may have from his family pales in 
>> comparison to the money he has made from his own efforts. Whatever I may 
>> think of how original his ideas were, I recognize that the success he 
>> has enjoyed is the fruits of his labours and not a result of his 
>> family's wealth -- pittance that it is.
>
>From "Hard Drive" a description of a typical Bill Gates III negoting
>session with a software writer goes something like 
>  hm, I can tell you're a pretty smart guy, it can't have taken you long to 
>  write this, did it, so a reasonable return on your time is x hours tims
>  y per hour plus I'll throw in a bonus of 
>
>  So much for Mr. Bill's hardwork. Remember how M$ just decided to ignore
>  copyright and use disk compression software belonging to somebody else,
>  hoping they would run out of money for lawyers before M$ did?
>
>> 
>> The entire micro-computer industry is a picture-perfect example of 
>> people with good ideas who were willing to work hard making good on 
>> their own merits.
>
>Unless M$ decides they want it for themselves? Or that they are going to
>bundle an M$ version of whatever product you write as an integrated part
>of Windoz?
>
>Without M$ we would have a lot more choice, a lot more companies competing
>in the marketplace and much better software.

Shure. Go ahead, the field is open.


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