Bill Gates
Real reasons not to like Bill Gates
I read a speech made to a high school credited to Bill Gates: "Rule
1: Life is not fair - get used to
it!" It is so easy to espouse such edicts, dictators and tyrants have
told their ‘subjects’ much the same thing for hundreds of years. It is
no coincidence that the guy with no or little money, some 95% of the
people that do the actual work have never said, "yeah, my life is tough
but I'll get used to it."
I don't begrudge the man because he had some good luck and the
foresight to follow up on a great
situation, but think about this. Not only did he take advantage a
situation, he did (and still does)
everything in his power to Monopolize
the market. Bill Clinton had the federal government pressing a anti-trust case
against Microsoft for being a Monopoly and the case had
proceeded far
enough for them to admit they did have special code in their
operating systems to favor
'their' own products. However, in my opinion it was just a stall
waiting for elections. Microsoft/Gates
made a donation to the Republicans and when Bush
won the election, the law suit was called off. That is the way politics
work. Now, since the
admission of wrong doing was done in court under some sort of legal
status, when the suit was called off, the
admission no longer exists for legal purposes in any other legal
proceedings. Hence Bill Gates is getting away with monopolizing the
computer industry. So when you 'got it all,' it is real easy to be
smug and say, "life isn't fair." The son-of-a-bitch should be in prison.
The list of things that Microsoft does that are anti-competitive in just this
one program is
to long to list here, and that is not the point of this message. He is
and they are, is all you need to know.
In the late 1800's the United States government took the Dupont
corporation to court for having a
monopoly of the explosives market, Dupont had over 70% of the market.
Dupont was forced to diverse almost
half of it's explosives holdings to settle the dispute. In the 1960's
the government sued Xerox for having a
monopoly of the copier market, roughly 80%, and it too, was forced to
open its copy technology to the world. In the 70's AT&T
having approximately 90% of the communications market, was forced to
release its grip on the communications market. Microsoft has over 95%
of the internet market yet when the Bush administration came in to
office, the suit
against Microsoft was called off despite their admission of guilt.
Atta-boy, their Bush!
Gates has made over 50 billion dollars and has essentially given
peanuts back. e.g. for every $100
he has made, he has given back pennies and by far the majority of the
money he has given back, has gone to other countries. Yeah, he is a
real generous SOB.
What he has spent it on has been "feel good, look good" stuff in
my opinion. What you and I do to help our fellow man is just that, we
give to charity, and/or help someone out of a tough spot, if we can.
Bill Gates does pretty much the same thing but here is the difference.
You or I might give one or two or five or ten percent of our income to
help someone or at least try to help others out.
Gates gives one hundred million to somebody and that sounds like a lot
of money but it is 0.002% of fifty Billion. Besides, once you have a
billion dollars, just how much more do you need, and Gates is trying
hard to increase his wealth.
It is giving what you are able rather than the quantity that matters.
Gates is in a position to make some fundamental changes in the
world, changes that would help all humanity for all time. Instead,
Gates is doing the same thing I do except on scale one hundred times no
a thousand times less, relative to income, relative to ability. Feeding
the hungry is great, but they will be hungry tomorrow still, nothing
gets fixed. You can
even find a cure for a disease but there will still be another one. Do
you see what
I'm getting at? Bill Gates isn't fixing anything, he is still doing
little things. He is working on his image, sprinklings a few hundred
million
bucks around to look good and feel good about himself. Bill Gates could
literally give away a million dollars easier than I could a dollar. A
person in his position should take on a problem relative to his ability
and forget the eye-wash shit. I believe history will show that Bill
Gates what he really is, a really greedy little man.
I know a little bit about computers but I have been unable to
turn off the "Windows Update"
function on my computer. I have tried to "not" turn it on, but failed.
Microsoft gets away with it because It seems a normal thing to do, keep
the latest and
greatest for "free," except of course, it is not ‘free,' you paid
for it. Bill Gates wants to know if you have paid him 'his' due,
every time you log into the internet. So what is the big deal? I'm
not a computer geek but even I found a "log" of WEB sites I had visited
in the windows software and I'm not talking about the
log associated with the browser. There is only one explanation for such
a log. It gets accessed
and downloaded. Windows update? Do a little searching on the WEB and
you will find where
lots of other people have found many such files & "spy ware" so to
speak, lurking in the
Windows software. Be careful though, Microsoft is aware of it. They will
be notified
next time you log on to the WEB.
I recently changed ISP's due for good reason only to learn after
I had committed myself that I was actually signing up on the MSN
network. Well, it would have been real messy to back out & cost me
to get out of it so I stayed with it. When I loaded "MSN premium",
my Quicken files were deleted, all the Word Perfect TSR's were deleted
and more, I'll try to remember & list them later.
A little update here. I have found nothing to disprove my
accusations and lots to back them up. At present I have two computers
hooked to the internet and a third one not. Things change on the
computers hooked to the internet, the one that is not, doesn’t and I
don't just mean updates. For instance, the microsoft program “Windows
Explorer” is missing off both on-line computers. I still have the short
cuts but the main file is gone. So I searched to see if I could get
another copy from Microsoft. No, I can’t but they do recommend me
buying the latest system from microsoft that does contain the program.
Does anything smell here to you?
I have run across several sites/offers that only work on I/E and
there is no reason for that. Some special code written that won’t let
it work on anything else. If this isn’t being anti-competitive, I don’t
know what is.
Try this link;
"http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html." In it is a
pretty good discussion of what is wrong with one person monopolizing
the internet with links to further articles.
Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 12/15/2011
By Dominic Basulto
TerraPower, a nuclear-power start-up backed by Microsoft founder Bill
Gates, former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold and a
handful of top-tier Silicon Valley venture capitalists, has been in
negotiations to sell its breakthrough traveling wave reactor technology
to China's National Nuclear Corporation.
The negotiations between Gates and China should be a wake-up call for
the United States government for both obvious and not-so-obvious
reasons.
Here’s why: This move illustrates how free innovators are to travel
anywhere in the world and take advantage of conditions that are most
attractive for future growth.
TerraPower’s “fourth generation” nuclear technology promises to
revolutionize the energy sector within two decades by making it possible
to power a nuclear plant with depleted uranium for decades at a time,
without the need for refueling or waste removal.
It’s no secret that Bill Gates plays to win.