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- Steve R. -- you might want to read the Web Site User Agreement for my web site http://zgp.org/~dmarti/meta/tos/ and do something similar. (I was thinking of something like "by reading my blog...
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1 year ago
I have the sneaking suspicion that Gates is engaged in a long term moral experiment: how much money does a rich non-celebrity have to give away before people forgive him for being rich. I think he'll find that 100% isn't enough -- he'll have to start giving away other people's money before we like him. After all, look how we applaud those who do?
1 year ago
This is a silly argument, for a variety of reasons that should be apparent to anyone with a slight faith in market based outcomes. I'll just give the single largest example here, and follow up in few days with a post on this misinformation.
Had Microsoft or Windows never existed, another company would have stepped in to fill the market demand for a PC Operating System. So to make the argument that Bill Gates is personally responsible for the wealth creation of the PC revolution doesn't hold water unless you demonstrate that there was something unique that Bill Gates brought to the table. So, when I bought a PC in 1991 for a construction site office (it was rare at that time, believe it or not) it came preloaded not with windows but PC GEOS, a non-MS product that MS used it's anti-competitive practices to crush. If a true competitive market for PC Operating System had been part of the regulatory policy at the time (i.e., had MS been quickly enjoined from using it's anti-competitive practices to first crush PC GEOS and then BEOS) it's quite probable that we would have had better OS's faster, due to competitive market forces. Instead, we had MS enrichment, not wealth creation.
1 year ago
By creating one that is free for any users including businesses. How does restricting the freedom of users make for a "flourishing" society?
1 year ago
Free? purely free at all times for everyone, everywhere?
Congratulations, you've just destroyed civilization. Without some dynamic, social or economic tension, limitations in other words, things have a tendency to explode.
Economic growth is a better long term solution, or continuation of society which is the ever moving solution, is far superior to the Instant-Gratification-Junkie's knee-jerk reaction of FREE IS GOOD! RARRGH!
I remain, as always,
Mad-Hamlet
1 year ago
how you reached your milestone is amazed and i will take an inspiration from your feet and i will struggle to become like you.
thankingyou sir
ravi kumar
6 months ago
Have fun with your torches, caves and lazy masses.