kevin carman

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• July 30, 2002, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:

  I'd like to add that Bill Gates has made virtually everyone he supposedly ripped-off very rich. He also put a PC on everyones desk, including yours. I have an example of a similar, but smaller scale, so-called technology piracy. Nvidia, a well known graphics chipset designer, obtained technology from a rival company known as 3DFX, and used to it to help create their new product line. They obtained the technology without 3DFX's consent, and were of course taken to court, and were losing. One way to side step defeat in the courtroom is to simply buy out the opposition, so they did just that. Nvidia simply bought 3DFX! Yes, this seems to parallel some of the doings of a certain person we have all been discussing, first name Bill. What amuses me, is that 3DFX had had very good sales until Nvidia stepped in the market, mostly because 3DFX had owned the market, and kept the prices of their product very high, because they could. The persistence of Nvidia had caused 3DFX sales to dwind...