Re: Top 1% OWNS MORE THAN bottom 90%
- From: Nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:11:42 -0400
Robert Kolker wrote:
How did Andrew Carnegie who came from Scotland with just the
clothes on his back become a billionare when gold was twenty bucks an
ounce?
By having the guts to bring in the pickertons to shoot in his own workers.
How did Bill Gates who folks were not billionares become a
billionare fifty times over?
By having the guts to "copy" the compression algorithm from stacker.
By embedding in earlier versions of Windows code to check if it is MS-DOR or
DR-DOS and simulate problems in DR-DOS to force customers switch.
By breaking the agreements with Novell about market share.
By using his OS monopoly to destroy Netscape and to harm Real.
By not documenting his file formats making extremely harder for customers
to migrate THEIR OWN DOCUMENTS AND DATA to a competing product, being forced
to stay with MS if they don't wanted to lose all their business data.
And many many more like it.
How did Tom Edison, a poor boy, become a potent and wealthy
industrialist?
By promissing Tesla a huge amount of money if he design for him a better
generator, then refusing to pay what he promissed.
How did Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniac a
pair of hippy non-millionares who worked out of a garage manage to
create the Apple Computer Corporation?
Here is a valuable experience that yes, there can be few valuable
businessmans.
Keep in mind however that Apple have less than 3% of the market share in
desktop while Microsoft have over 90%.
Society is like a bottle full of milk. The cream will rise to the top.
Unfortunate 99% of the business cream it is infected with e-coli and is
there by destroying a large quantity of good milk.
.
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