[ShadowAce]

[bmwcyle]

Bill Gates is a liberal rich crook.

[elfman2]

"Can they get any more undignified or childish? This is the biggest software company on the planet, and the most obscenely rich company of all time. Yet they pout, throw public tantrums, and emit the most amazing line of pure baloney on a regular basis. Nothing is ever good enough and everyone picks on them, all those mean governments and unhappy users and mouthy Linux hippies and everyone."

Something here reminds me of the mob inciting rhetoric of villains in an Ayn Rand novel. Maybe it's the unsupported smearing and character assassinations of the most successful and dominate player in the market. It's like they can just reference a fashionable charge as if "everyone knows it" to feed the resentment of an envious Linux mob and move on to the next load of crap.

[Golden Eagle]

Linux infringes on a lot more patents than just Microsoft’s, and why wouldn’t it since it’s a foreign clone of an original US product to begin with. You don’t have to take Microsoft’s word for it either, just ask Richard Stallman “the father of free software” who openly admits it. One of the lawyers that works for him at the FSF did a patent study that showed about 300 possible infringements in the Linux kernel alone.

[DreamsofPolycarp]

But there is more to life than being mad all the time,

There is?

[antiRepublicrat]

The article lays it out pretty well.

But Microsoft isn’t the most obscenely rich company of all time. There are a lot of companies with a higher market cap, Exxon for example.

But go through history and adjust for inflation and other companies were insanely huge and powerful, like the Dutch East India Company. And I don’t think anything compares to the wealth of the Medici family’s bank in its heyday.