On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:02:08 +0300, Or Botton wrote: > Personally, this sounds more like an idle threat then anything.
> 1)Windows is Microsoft's No.1 revenue profit. > 2)Taking Windows off the market simply means "no more new versions > of windows". Since most of the PCs ALLREADY run windows, this will > only impact new PCs. > 3)We all know that there are alternatives out there for Windows. Only > glitch would be the fight to get Win32 software working on those > systems. We allready got emulators, but they're not perfect. > Bill knows all this very well. So, somehow i'm not so sure that he's > even thinking over that direction of action seriously. I'm just reporting what he said in court this past week. It's nice to see him sweat in public. He's like the poor little rich kid who declares "if I can't play by my rules then I'm taking my ball and going home". Obviously he's not thinking. And he's had absolutely no scruples about stealing the intellectual property of others and converting it for his own purposes. Watching Gates spout about "piracy and theft" would be amusing if he wasn't so mesmerized by his own snake oil. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
