Re: Bill Gates and Tsunamis

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:12:27 GMT

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:13:35 GMT, Iceman <1c3m4n@chi-mafia.org> wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:06:28 GMT, royls@telus.net wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:14:57 GMT, "Randall D. Kelton"
>> <rkelton@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>If the world followed your way of thinking, we would still be banging rocks
>>>together.
>>
>> Nonsense. It wasn't until after the Renaissance was nearly over that
>> the world's _very_first_ intellectual property law was passed. And
>> even if it is the case that there should be some provision to reward
>> creative work more than was done before IP law (wasn't Leonardo da
>> Vinci creative enough for you?), that doesn't mean government-granted
>> artificial monopoly privileges are the best way to do it.
>
>Idiot, if BG hadn't released W3 when he did and GEOS hadn't delayed release
>it would have been far different.

Hypothesis contrary to fact. We have no way of knowing what "would
have" happened.

And it's a shame you can't cobble together an argument worth refuting.
You can't even say anything relevant to what you pretend to be
answering.

>BG was the one who got the ball rolling on Mac's.

Completely false, of course.

And you should perhaps know that unlike you, I was an adult and a
computer user at the time.

>If you want to blame someone then blame IBM like all the Big Blue haters of
>old. They were the ones who got PC's going and could never program a decent
>DOS.

Having worked for IBM at one time, and witnessed some of the appalling
goings-on there, I concur that IBM _management_ deserves much of the
blame. Opel's lack of vision was bad enough; Akers was just
catastrophically incompetent.

-- Roy L