LibertyKid
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I think Gates and M$ are known more for the software they have designed that run the computers popularized by IBM. Was Gates aggressive and seeing competition, buying the competition, and growing M$, sure he was. But it didn't happen because he sat around crying about what Steve Jobs was doing or other successful people. He had ideas, made those ideas into a product that people and organizations have wanted and now use all over the world. But Gates is an evil man and doesn't deserve anything more than most of you bitching on an internet forum, using the same product that he helped develop and create. SMH at all the hypocrisy. If you don't like Gates, then you can't like Apple, or even Google. Throw all your tech away, pull out the pen and paper and start writing to each other, please?Computers were created at public expense and public initiative. In their earliest stages of development it was 100% public expense, and the same is true for the Internet.
My using a private monopoly in place of a public utility doesn't change Microsoft's or Gate's commitment to highly concentrated private power:
On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner
"It’s a form of tyranny.
"But, that’s the whole point of corporatization — to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run — which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything — are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power."