From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 16:28:01 MST
> (Dehede011@aol.com <Dehede011@aol.com>):
> In a message dated 12/9/2002 3:43:14 PM Central Standard Time, lee@piclab.com
> writes: I don't recall ever reading an essay or a post condemning Bill for
> the legitimate reasons he actually can be justly comdemned (except my own, of
> course).
>
> Lee,
> I have heard various reasons for disliking Bill Gates:
> 1. Personally in my view, he seems to be an unlovely person.
> 2. Some people seem to dislike him due to their own greed or their coveting
> what he has.
> 3. I keep hearing that this original problems with the Justice Department
> was due to a political shakedown. Allegedly he didn't use to make campaign
> contributions but now that he has learned his lesson the politicians leave
> him alone.
> 4. I would be interested in hearing what your "legitimate" reasons are.
> My basic position on Mr. Gates is that of an observer.
> Ron h
The complaints I have with Bill are (1) He actively advocates strong
copyright laws, even to the point of lobbying the US to enforce its
monopolies on foreign soil; (2) He signed a contract with Sun agreeing
to produce implementations of Java that passed conformance tests,
and willfully broke that agreement; and (3) he markets some products
by claiming to support public standards while actively subverting the
value of those standards (e.g. Kerberos).
Other than that, I have no problem whatsoever with giving away the
browser to put Netscape out of business (that's perfectly fair play
as far as I'm concerned), or with making exclusive contracts with
hardware suppliers forbidding them to offer alternatives (if Compaq
wants to sign a contract like that, it's their business), or any of
the other so-called "crimes" he is charged with.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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