On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 08:24 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > Yes, well... most pop stars don't steal their fellow pop-stars' ideas and > then > crush them.
I'm not sure about theft of ideas(!), but certainly the anticompetitive practices of MS are what gets most peoples goat. > I'm also disturbed at how Bill has been popping up with world leaders etc. > recently. Seems he's interested in becoming a political figure, and, if he's > appearing to crowds of teenagers at rock concerts rather than appearing on > the news or -- *gasp* giving anonymously and altruistically -- then I suspect > it has more to do with selling X-Boxes and/or online music services to > dominate markets, than anything else. Bill has always been this way though; it's a matter of the opportunity presenting itself - there's no huge amount of difference between appearing at Live8 or appearing on the Simpsons or Frasier. And without resorting to Bilderburgian paranoic conspiracies, he's been attended economic events (e.g, World Economic Forum). > Everyone can and will make up their own minds of course, but Bill and his > company have a long history of very nasty activities. As someone said, a > person is not who they were the last time you met them, but who they've been > throughout your whole relationship. Well, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of forgiveness that completely, but yeah, MS have their bad side. More tellingly, though, I suspect it's pretty easy to be charitable when your personal wealth is some $44B or whatever. I would be interested to know if, proportionally, he is more charitable that the average person. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
