From: "Very solvable problems" says Gates Byline: James Riley OCTOBER 28, 2003
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7664710%5E15382%5E%5 Enbv%5E,00.html See the quote below. Also interesting to see that Bill knows nothing about licensing costs. He thinks that after you purchase an M$ product, it's yours to use "for free". I guess his handlers never loaded an NT product onto one of his systems. See Dvorak's comments on Bill's ramblings in "Get a Clue" @ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1386150,00.asp ------------------------ Jason Hayes - Principal Hayes Holdings Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.hayz.ws Blog: www.hayz.ws/weblog/blogger.htm #1936 - 246 Stewart Green SW Calgary, AB, Canada T3H 3C8 ------------------------ >From the mind of Bill Gates... "It's kind of cheeky of Sun to take something that is free software and try and charge for it. But, you know, Sun can do what they want. Most people think of OpenOffice and StarOffice as something that is completely free. And we compete very effectively against it when it is free. When they start charging for it, then it's trivial to compete against it. But it (StarOffice, OpenOffice) is not a major factor in the marketplace. There is way more Corel, and more Chinese and Japanese-specific product. Around the world, I would say that number two is Corel, which is the whole WordPerfect thing. But compared with our installed base, those things are pretty small. OpenOffice sometimes makes headlines because it is free. But, really, sit down and try to use it. I mean, yeah, I could waste what, and hour a day just trying to read files? Yeah, if you don't value your time, then absolutely, it's the way to go."
