Lone Haranguer wrote:
jps wrote:
In article k.net,
says...
You just fall completely flat trying to sound like a caring capitalist.
Fact is, it makes you look like the selfish asshole you are and you
can't stand it.
I'm in business to make money but not without helping the people who
work for my company also earn a living wage and ensuring them access
to first class medical insurance.
You go ahead and **** people to your heart's content. Hope you don't
believe in an afterlife and you've got a good therapist -- or,
alternatively, someone you screw punches you in the nose for being a
heartless *******.
But if you trample people and get rich, you can be a caring
philanthropist like Bill Gates. That should buy several tickets into
heaven, right?
I'm not apologist for Gates, but there is ample
evidence that he got Microsoft, and himself, to where
they are by developing superior products, and by
legally exploiting a phenomenon called network economies.
Some economists - oooh, dirty word to 'jps' - showed
some years ago that, contrary to public belief,
Microsoft non-OS products attained market dominance
through performance and feature superiority, not by
riding on the coattails of the company's OS dominance.
They showed this by looking at trade publication
reviews of Microsoft software available for
non-Microsoft OS platforms, mostly Macintosh, where
Microsoft's non-OS products would not enjoy any
coattail effect. Microsoft products consistently were
rated very highly.
Network economies, something the illiterate 'jps' knows
nothing about, occur when having everyone on the same
platform eliminates some sizable transaction costs. If
everyone is using Excel, you don't need to worry about
the compatibility of a file between Excel and 1-2-3.
Microsoft got huge *mostly* through legitimate means.
They probably are guilty, though, of some specific
anti-trust violations that helped them get even bigger.
The legitimate growth dwarfs the illegal part.
'jps' and Harry Dumbo Krause just don't like Microsoft
because they're big business, and as
accomplishment-free whiners, they feel they have no
choice but to hate the accomplished.