NoStop <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Hadron wrote:
>
>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o'
>>> wisdom:
>>>
>>>> Context:
>>>>
>>>> "Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider
>>>> Monkey."
>>>>
>>>> --Bill Gates
>>>
>>> This site has some funny quotes (no true attributions, though):
>>>
>>> http://www.billgatesmicrosoft.com/
>>>
>>> Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It\u2019s a good
>>> thing we have museums to document that.
>>>
>>> I have 100 billion dollars... You realise I could spend 3 million
>>> dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I
>>> don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a
>>> million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your
>>> arm right here.
>>>
>>> The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and
>>> said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and
>>> millions of machines.
>>>
>>> There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like
>>> PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
>>>
>>> What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal licence
>>> for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux
>>> or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
>>>
>>> We've got to put a lot of money into changing behaviour.
>>>
>>> Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
>>>
>>> This one isn't funny. It is a good quote, though. And ironic,
>>> considering it comes from the fellow who didn't want to share code,
>>> and, in fact, considered some of his fellow computer users thieves:
>>
>> Why should he share his code? So people can steal it, fork it
>
> Karma? Isn't this the way Bill Gate$ launched his career?
>
Why should anyone licence *his* code if they don't want to use it? He's
merely greedy. Rich, of course, but fundamentally, he wants to be paid
for nothing.
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