Being rich isn't a popularity contest. Once upon a time, Al Capone was the richest man in Chicago. Lot's of the locals liked him too. He opened street kitchens and soup lines for the unemployed. That made him no less of a thug.
They just want to rob the US tech advantage and give it to their buddies for free.
They want to rob the people that have perverted the copyright system into an endless gravy train.
Microsoft needs to be watched, but Bill has been a good boy since the feds threatened to bust him up.
Unless you count the some 50 lawsuits filed against Microsoft since the antitrust case. Most of them claim that Microsoft is up to it's old anticompetitive tricks. See the lawsuit by the Burst corporation, who states that Microsoft stole their technology and made a buck off of it. So far, the case continues to go forward. All of Microsoft's attempts to discredit the evidence failed, so they destroyed evidence. Every time there is a hearing, the judge has found that Burst has a valid case. It's due to go to court this summer. Perhaps Microsoft will get broken up after all.
Microsoft is a company founded on lies and deceit, and founded by a known leftist who contributes large sums of money to third-world abortion and forced sterilization causes. Why do you continue to support Bill Gates?
These "Suse" and "Red Flag" imitations are for losers.
SuSE is owned by the Novell Corporation of Provo, UT and RedHat is based in Durham, NC.
If your going to spread FUD, you should at least have a passing idea of what you are talking about.
You've got to be kidding. You're going to try to compare Bill Gates to Al Capone? Go ahead, start with murder. Gates is a salesman, and a damn good one. You don't like his product, unlike the 90% of the rest of us? Fine, go buy something else. But don't start pushing your freeware fix on us without also giving out the likely side effects.
They want to rob the people that have perverted the copyright system into an endless gravy train.
The copyright system is what has protected our intellectual property, one of the primary products of this country, which has not only grown in value but in significance as we move further away from manufacturing. These guys want our computer secrets fist, but that is just so it will make it easier to get our prescription drug secrets, nuclear secrets, etc. down the line. They want something, they should have to pay for it. Hey, it's the American way.
It's due to go to court this summer. Perhaps Microsoft will get broken up after all.
Not a chance while Bush is in office, because it would be a ridiculously ignorant thing to do. That was Janet Reno's BS, Microsoft may be guilty of violations, and if they are they need to be punished, I can't think of a time that they have been penalized (except this recent EU shakedown) that I thought they didn't deserve to pay. But busting them up is just a socialists wet dream, they'd love to see the world's richest guy taken down for anything.
If your going to spread FUD, you should at least have a passing idea of what you are talking about.
I obviously know exactly what I'm talking about, and those are versions of Linux, which is nothing more than a cheap Finish knock-off the the Unix operating system. It's an immitation, pure and simple. We need our software companies building to increase the value of our proprietary products like Unix, instead of these cheap foreign clones that steal our intellectual property with their "copyleft" vs. "copyright" licenses.