Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30
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On 31 Jul 99, A.H.SCHMIDT wrote, at least in part:
> There is another company in very recent times, which copied stole and
> thieved blatantly, like never experienced before. Not a Japanese company
> this time. It was an American company. It was Microsoft, with Bill Gates <
> the richest thief in the world >. They stooped so low in the beginning.
> They stole various software products from shareware programs and also from
> other small companies. There where quite a few court cases about this. Now
> Bill Gates is the big shot, who is invited to give speeches at seminars,
> to tell the world how to get rich too. However there is never any mention
> of blatant thievery. Its always about looking ahead and being
> enterprising. I suppose he, Marcos, Suharoto and similar types looked ahed
> while stealing from others.
Let's not exclude Jobs and company and how the Apple GUI was
purloined.
Actually, when you think about it, the world is rotten! Save thee
and me.
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Roger
mailto:roger@beamon.org
Thought for the day:
When in doubt...
manipulate the data.