What, sir, have you done today, that's of benefit to society?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_smart.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:58 AM
Subject: Gates' Greed (was: Nuke Redmond!)
>
> Something I forgot to add in my last posting. While I don't see
> anything wrong with someone doing some of the things Gates did with
> using Microsoft to make a fortune, I should have added that I think
> that some of what he's done has also been inexcuseable - I don't
> understand how a company the size of Microsoft, with all those
> employees, is unable to produce an operating system that actually
> works properly and isn't a nuisance to use. Also, with regards to his
> persistence in pursuing monopolistic tactics: with his fortune, why
> doesn't the man just give it up, sell Microsoft to someone else, in
> whole or in pieces, and just enjoy life? Why does he keep working, at
> Microsoft, still trying to totally dominate the market, doing work
> that's of no real benefit to society? It's not like he's working at
> purshuing some sort of intellectual pursuit, which would make more
> sense to keep working at. It appears to be just plain greed... or,
> ok, to be kind, perhaps the poor man's got an obsessive/compulsive
> disorder he can't shake.
>
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> All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature
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Received on Tue Jan 16 2001 - 13:51:13 GMT