On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:58 PM, kam <kamcginnis At gmail DOT com> wrote:
> If they would concentrate on quality and new inventive products like
> Apple, they would not need to be so paranoid and litigious. Of
> course, when you are a 90+% monopoly, it is natural to loose all the
> incentive to innovate. They are happy to hang on to their
> market share. I guess when you have that much money in the bank, it does
> tend to make you complacent. They could be advancing
> computing and helping the world to be more efficient. Some people are
> happy to rip everyone off and keep the status quo.
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Wow I see that M$ is doing exactly that. In the trying to be more like
Apple in style then the M$ of old.
YMMV, but this is from all the developer blogs that I am reading.
>
> Note the difference between that kind of thinking and T Boone Pickens. He
> was 70 before he made his first billion. He is 80 and is
> starting a 10 billion dollar windmill farm to generate 4000 megawatts. T
> Boone will accomplish what all the politicians refuse to
> do. Bill Gates could do something usefull like that with his money. What
> could he possibly do that would be better for the world
> than to find a way to generate all the power we need with renewable
> sources?
>
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Since Bill got married his money has been flowing. Melinda was a good thing
for all that wealth. Setting up health centers in poor segments of the
world, I mean areas that are not even into computers. Countries that are
battling food and water crisis.
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