On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:06:38 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:35:06 -0400 > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1387447,00.html > > "No law of nature says that companies have to stay profitable > just because they were in the past. This is a problem for the > whole software industry, but the solution Gates favours is bad > for all of us. This is to get governments to supply the > missing law and to ensure that Microsoft and other large > companies will be profitable for ever, at the expense of any > smaller, newer, hungrier ones. Software will be protected not > just by copyright, but by patents. This makes about as much > sense as patenting jokes."
I think the best bit is where Gates throws around the term "communist" as if he really has anything against them, when his recent words and actions in China clearly demonstrate that he has no problem with communists, and--even worse--has no problem participating in communism in order to gain market share there. Ironic. Not. Miark
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