[mdlug] ...Microsoft patent threat

[Aaron Kulkis]

Michael Corral wrote:
> Carl T. Miller a ecrit:
>> I was talking to a friend last night who said that Microsoft
>> doesn't like the current state of the patent system either.
>> They can victimized by frivolous patent infringement cases
>> just like anyone else.  He suggested that M$ might be doing
>> this to make a point...which may result in better court
>> decisions or better laws being made.
> 
> Was your friend wearing his tinfoil hat at the time? :)
> 
> I agree with Tim that that scenario is unlikely.
> Some people just have a hard time accepting that Microsoft
> really does want to crush Linux, or at least get everyone to
> pay them for the right to use Linux. I think the explanation
> really is that simple.

My first understanding of the magnitude of Gates' megalomania
and psychopathy came when I was in the bookstore and flipping
through "Business @ the speed of thought"... He wrote that one
of his goals was to recieve a portion of EVERY SINGLE FINANCIAL
TRANSACTION ON THE ENTIRE PLANET.  I thought to myself,
"whoa, this sounds like Revelation and 'the mark of the beast'"
...in this case, the "mark" being the Windows trademark.



(*) You know, that book hailed by reviewers as 'groundbreaking'
in the mid 1990's in which Gates so completely ignores or misses
things like the internet that he doesn't mention it, not even ONCE)





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> Michael
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