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To: Zakeet

Then imprison Bill Gates for violating every state law regarding rendering professional service without a license. Microsoft is the major reason software isn’t signed off upon by registered engineers. When Microsoft went around the law by promoting patent law over professional registration, he molded the industry so that his firm attempts to reclassify public service as a competitive service destroying thousands of professional jobs while creating a monopoly.

MS stole windows from X and UNIX, previously developed by Xeorx Parc but to mention a few.

IMHO, MS set the computer science industry back decades and stifled intellectual achienvement for millions of Americans, while riding the wave of PC software throughout corporate America to create his monopoly/oligopoly.

Considering the amount of lead start MS has held in OS SW, he only has himself to blame for incompetence in leading the market further. Now he has to further leach off of public domain SW created by thousands of unpaid programmers serving the public.


27 posted on 05/13/2007 4:30:03 PM PDT by Cvengr (The violence of evil is met with the violence of righteousness, justice, love and grace.)
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To: Cvengr
When Microsoft went around the law by promoting patent law over professional registration, he molded the industry so that his firm attempts to reclassify public service as a competitive service destroying thousands of professional jobs while creating a monopoly.

Worse than that. Microsoft got businesspeople used to the idea that buggy, bloated, utterly incompetent software was the norm. And in the process made it far easier for business to accept offshoring.

Whether by design, or by fortuitous "accident", I'm not sure.

Cheers!

54 posted on 05/13/2007 5:21:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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