From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 13:46:02 MST
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/15/2002 11:35:01 AM Central Standard Time,
>puglisi@arcetri.astro.it writes: Actually, he will never repay us of the
>years he robbed halting innovation, stealing from and crushing competitors,
>and so on. The $50 billion is the result of a highly skilled marketing and
>legal team, and has nothing to do with the (inferior) quality of its
>products.
>
>Alfio,
> No inventor ever invented anything that the losers didn't say that or
>something very similar and no young man ever got a date with a beautiful
>young woman that some guy didn't say, "but I wanted to date her." Get over
>it, envy gets us no where.
>Ron h
>
Envy? Maybe I phrased poorly what I mean, happens in a foreign language.
Let's try again:
The vast majority of the technical community regards Microsoft products as
low quality, bloated, and focused much more on bells and whistles than
actual functionality. A high percentage of the "innovations" were actually
bought or stolen from somewhere else.
The market dominance is the result of the biggest flaw of a real-world
free market system, non-informed consumers, readily exploited by a very
good marketing team.
The subsequent monopoly was the result of various illegal activities, as
found by a variety of legal courts.
Because of those reasons, I don't consider the $50 billion bank account
the consequence of any real value provided to the world. Quite the
contrary in fact.
Ciao,
Alfio
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