Mike A

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• January 14, 2002, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  Addressed to the Socialists. I am sick of surfing the net' and seeing such backward thinking attitudes that people have. Bill Gates DOESNT OWE YOU or ANYONE ANYTHING. The reason we live in North America and do not desire to escape is because of the possibilities tha Bill Gates has achieved. He is not exploiting his position as President of the US, He is not the leader of some UN Committee or a dictator that gives him total control over people, he is a businessman. He is not rich because he has stolen money from 'his people' or his 'motherland', or any other kind of nonsense. His 'privilege' or 'luck' as some call it is NOT due to his position at birth, his race, or any other pathetic reason LOSERS give successful people. He has become the richest man in the world due to ONE thing...freedom. This is beautiful because this is not something that you are born into, or only a priviliged few can obtain through permission from the government (at the moment), therefore ANY of you co...

• February 9, 2002, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  Tony thanks for the comment. Let me reply. First, my initial comment was to the few people remarking on this page, about the immorality of making money, and the evils of Bill gates, (I should say that when I stumbled on this ‘Bill Bashing site’ I was pleasantly surprised to see a majority of the responses not against Bill or Microsoft, but instead in defense of them.) Back to you Tony, let’s dig a little deeper than tired clichés and hypocritical moral statements that you so easily drop. I suggest you study a little bit more, on the topic which you denounce in your statement. Its too easy to say things like your first statement ‘Capitalism is all well and good, but it stops working when a company like Microsoft uses its power to prevent people from making educated choices.’, (which, Tony, by the way is a paradox). That typical knee-jerk reaction is comforting to you and others, (you’re not alone, unfortunately), when you say it, because you think you are basing it on a sou...

• February 9, 2002, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  Sorry about the weird jumbled writing in my comment above. I wrote that comment in Microsoft Word and then transferred it to this post. I guess if I dont want this to happen again, I should buy some software from another company (since Microsoft hasn't obviously figured out a way to transfer documents from word files to this site without the weird addition of various symbols that you see above). And that company probably competes directly with Microsoft so I will support the underdog in this case...until Microsoft comes out with a better product. Isnt Capitalism Great!

• March 7, 2002, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:

  This is addressed to poweredby.png's comment. 'In closing i would have to say ppl like Bill Gates who hinder Human advancement should be imprisoned for Intellectual Dictatorship.' Earlier in that statement you said this '...Microsoft impedes my work by copywriting thier extensions...' Ok, by saying this and giving kudos to LINUS TORVALDS for writing free software, I assume you are disagreeing with the patent process, copywriting, trademarking, etc. i.e. protection of intellectual and physical property. Let me enlighten you as to your error. First I know nothing about programming or developing and kind of software, but the same rules apply to software developing as they do for manufacturing cars and trucks. You are trying to make a living doing something with computers, correct? Your argument is this. That it is wrong (immoral) for somebody (Microsoft)to place a protection on their product/idea/design because it is hindering your ability to develop something for you to ...