kam wrote:
> If they would concentrate on quality and new inventive products like Apple,
> they would not need to be so paranoid and litigious. Of
> course, when you are a 90+% monopoly, it is natural to loose all the
> incentive to innovate. They are happy to hang on to their
> market share. I guess when you have that much money in the bank, it does tend
> to make you complacent. They could be advancing
> computing and helping the world to be more efficient. Some people are happy
> to rip everyone off and keep the status quo.
>
> Note the difference between that kind of thinking and T Boone Pickens. He was
> 70 before he made his first billion. He is 80 and is
> starting a 10 billion dollar windmill farm to generate 4000 megawatts. T
> Boone will accomplish what all the politicians refuse to
> do. Bill Gates could do something usefull like that with his money. What
> could he possibly do that would be better for the world
> than to find a way to generate all the power we need with renewable sources?
>
Now come on.....the Bill and Melinda ("I wrote M$ Bob") Gates Foundation
is certainly a good thing.
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