[Registered]

IF BILL GATES CAN MAKE 85% ON A PRODUCT, MORE POWER TO HIM!

[fogarty]

If the government can make 85% on taxes more power to them!

Doesn't sound so innocuous now, does it?

[The_Reader_David]

Well, as Linus Torvald says "I don't object to Bill Gates being rich, I object to Bill Gates having a lousy operating system."

(I've got Linux at work, and MacOS 9.1 at home--I may stitch over to OS 10.2 over the holidays. Then everthing I've got will be a GUI running on top of an open-source Unix kernel!!!)

[SlickWillard]

IF BILL GATES CAN MAKE 85% ON A PRODUCT, MORE POWER TO HIM!

Damn right. Memo to all you marxist lurkers at FR:

1) Microsoft is traded on NASDAQ as MSFT. Pick up the phone and become one of its owners:

1) ScotTrade
2) etrade
3) Ameritrade
4) Charles Schwab
5) Merrill-Lynch
6) ad nauseum...

2) If you just can't stomach Microsoft's products, well, there's a world of competition to choose from:

1) NeXTSTEP/OpenSTEP/MAC OSX
2) Red Hat
3) FreeBSD
4) OpenBSD
5) NetBSD
6) Solaris
7) ad nauseum...