On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:58 PM, kam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > ----------------------------------------
Wow I see that M$ is doing exactly that. In the trying to be more like Apple in style then the M$ of old. YMMV, but this is from all the developer blogs that I am reading. > > 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? > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Since Bill got married his money has been flowing. Melinda was a good thing for all that wealth. Setting up health centers in poor segments of the world, I mean areas that are not even into computers. Countries that are battling food and water crisis. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
