He'd rather sink it down a rat hole by providing aid to Africa.
--- On Wed, 4/30/08, kam <kamcginnis (AT) gmail .DO.T com> wrote:
> From: kam <kamcginnis@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OT] XP Service Pack 3 is out along with some rants
> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox (AT) leafe .DO.T com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 2:58 PM
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MB Software Solutions General Account"
> <mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>
> To: "ProFox Email List" <profox (AT) leafe .DO.T com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [NF] XP Service Pack 3 is out.
>
>
> kam wrote:
> > Win2000 was the last M$ OS that had less (fewer is for
> things you can count) bugs so that it is somewhat usable.
> That stupid
> > account activation crap that probably cost M$ billions
> of dollars in calls to India destroyed XP and Vista along
> with all the
> > other
> > crap that doesn't work.
>
> I'd certainly love to know it they did in fact lose
> billions...but then
> again, how much was offset by new purchases (instead of
> pirated copies)?
>
>
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