Re: A serious threat to our national security




James Arthur wrote:

That's Bill Gate's major innovation--his solution to the
question "How can you make loads of money off a product
that never breaks, and never wears out?"

His answer is a combination of making sure the thing
you buy is defective, and or deficient, or of making
it obsolete, and parcelling out improvements (and
even fixes) as slowly as possible.

Hence changing Word and Excel's formats, changing the
OS to break old applications, shipping bugs, security
issues, etc.

It just hit me yesterday--I've oft noted the harm he's
done selling lousy software, but I just realized...he
breaks our tools. My superb DOS file compare, search
routine, editor, directory utility, parallel port-
operated interfaces, truly nifty ISA A/D board... broken.

The advance of civilization has been one of building
tool upon tool, hand tools ==> machines ==> machine
tools ==> better machines ==> better tools. Same for
software. And he breaks ours.

Thanks Bill.

I was just reading that right before Russia invaded
Georgia, there was a cyberattack on Georgia's basic
network infrastructure launched from the Botnets that
Bill Gates created through the above policies. I can
only conclude that Microsoft's ongoing refusal to make
a version of windows that cannot be remotely controlled
by criminals is now a serious threat to our national
security.



--
Guy Macon
<http://www.GuyMacon.com/>

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