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On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:12:42 +0000 (UTC), Paul Harper <paul@harper.net>
wrote:

>On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:37:40 +0000 (UTC), "John W. Kennedy"
><jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>Carl wrote:
>>> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message 
>>> news:yI7gg.3677$n91.1519@fe09.lga...
>>>> Carl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, Gates has been too busy giving $29 Billion to charities and trying 
>>>>> to bring medicines to third world countries.  I can see where you'd be 
>>>>> looking for a 666  birthmark. :)
>>>> Bill Gates has, almost single-handedly, brought the entire software 
>>>> industry to a screeching halt. He has ruined the careers of thousands, and

>>>> he has done it by repeated criminal acts, and by a completely lack of 
>>>> personal and business ethics.
>>> 
>>> Nonsense.
>>
>>Absolute truth. I've been in the business for over 40 years, and the 
>>last ten have been absolutely stagnant.
>
>And I've been in it for 27 years and I have never been busier or so
>well compensated (and no, I don't work for Microsoft, or any software
>company for that matter).
>
>Have you considered the stagnation might be a rather more... local...
>problem?

It isn't. Internet Explorer is an excellent example. When Netscape is
in business, the two companies released product after product, each
with loads of new features. But the moment Microsoft had succeeded at
driving Netscape out of business, they stopped all development. Not
only did they not develop or more likely steal (since I've never seen
them actually invent anything) any new features and technologies, they
ignored the new ones that appeared, such as tabbed browsing and RSS.
They even announced that Internet Explorer was a "mature technology"
that required no improvements.

Then, when Firefox became popular, MS suddenly woke up and announced a
new version of IE. And so it goes in area after area. No one would
even dream of building a better word processor or spreadsheet now,
because they know that MS would use its monopoly position to drive
them out of business. Software improvements have been left to niche
companies and public groups like Mozilla. Even Apple survived only
because Microsoft found it legally convenient to maintain the fiction
of competition while it was being prosecuted.

>>The only thing Bill Gates deserves "credit" for is having been born a 
>>selfish, spoiled, multimillionaire brat.
>
>Yup. Jealousy it is then.

IOW, anyone who criticizes someone who's wealthy is automatically
jealous? Have you ever read any accounts of this guy's behavior? Seems
like a pretty fair description to me.

-- 
Josh

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