[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

Here again, Bill has taken someone's clunky old application and improved it. Like Ben Franklin who admittedly never invented anything but instead improved on existing products, Bill continues in the same manner. Of course he will probably be dragged into court when Java begins to be threatened and another ruling will be made against him for being the most prolific innovater in a century (the court ruling however will cite coersion, extortion, fraud, and a number of other items that are always fired at the guy at the top). Hey Bill, go boy!
It appears that if the previous court rulings were really serious, Bill would be suffering. Instead I submit that it was a slap on his wrist so the government could position themselves as having done something for the whiners who were complacent about their products that Bill improved upon and wanted a court ruling as opposed to getting off their complacent a$$es and improving their own products.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Here again, Bill has taken someone's clunky old application and improved it.

Not entirely true, but since you want to use that as an argument:

Who built the first internal combustion engine? Did only the inventor improve on it until now?

How about the first turbine engine?

I still say "Gates-haters" suffer from penis envy.