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Skriven 2006-04-05 18:10:46 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 10532 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Bill Gates "the most important philanthropist in the history of man
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From: "Gary Britt" <email@from_Gary_Britt.org>

Actually he illegally leveraged DOS to gain his Windows/OEM Distribution
Monopoly, and then he leveraged Windows monopoly to get even more rich.

Gary

"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:sud832h6tcr8ej7bt03fkjml0p55r01ugi@4ax.com...
> > Gates has made his fortune by providing the Windows operating system and
> > other software that runs on more powerful machines.
>
>
> Gates made his fortune by illegally leveraging the Windows monopoly to
> steal money from computer users.
>
>   /m
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:51:08 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/265508_laptop05.html
> >
> >Laptop visionary blasts Gates
> >Media Lab founder says $100 computer plan hurt by criticism
> >
> >By HIAWATHA BRAY
> >THE BOSTON GLOBE
> >
> >BOSTON -- Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at the
Massachusetts
> >Institute of Technology, thinks Bill Gates is "the most important
> >philanthropist in the history of mankind."
> >
> >But Negroponte has a major philanthropic idea of his own -- a $100 laptop
> >computer for every poor child on earth -- and he says that the Microsoft
> >Corp. chairman's recent criticism of the laptop plan could hinder its
> >success.
> >
> >At the LinuxWorld trade show in Boston on Tuesday, Negroponte revealed
more
> >technical details on the hand-cranked laptop to be produced by his
> >non-profit, One Laptop Per Child. But a good deal of Negroponte's speech
was
> >a thinly veiled critique of Microsoft and other computer industry leaders
> >who have built ever-more-complex and power-hungry software and hardware,
> >instead of cheaper, simpler devices.
> >
> >"Bill Gates the philanthropist and Bill Gates the businessman are in
> >conflict," Negroponte said after the speech. "I think we need to
collaborate
> >and not go to war."
> >
> >Gates has made his fortune by providing the Windows operating system and
> >other software that runs on more powerful machines. So even though Gates
has
> >committed billions of his fortune to aid people in developing countries,
> >he's had little use for Negroponte's laptop, the first version of which
will
> >run on the rival Linux operating system.
> >
> >"Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text, and
> >you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,"
> >Gates said at a Washington, D.C., conference last month.
> >
> >"It's not about a weak computer," Negroponte fired back Tuesday. "It's
about
> >a slim, thin, fast computer." Negroponte added that his organization
already
> >was working with Microsoft to develop a version of the supercheap machine
> >that would run a stripped-down version of Windows. "So jeez, why
criticize
> >me in public?" he complained.
> >
> >Negroponte said Gates is "held in almost godlike regard" by foreign-aid
> >donors and recipients alike, and his criticism could hinder the success
of
> >his program. Negroponte hailed Gates' generosity to poor people but said
> >Gates couldn't bring himself to praise a computer system that isn't
> >dependent on Microsoft software.
> >
> >Negroponte hopes that a computer vendor will offer a Windows-based
version
> >of his laptop in affluent countries. He said the success of such a
product
> >would encourage leaders in poor countries to participate in the $100
Linux
> >laptop program.
> >

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