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Hank©[_2_]

On 5/16/2013 5:16 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 2013 20:50:10 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2013 12:23:58 -0400, wrote:

Most of his life was devoted to crushing any competition and
maintaining his monopoly.

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And he was very good at that. Very very good. Greedy? Absolutely,
but that was the driving force that made WINDOWS the most popular
operating system of all time, and made PC technology and the internet
accessible by virtually everyone regardlesss of technical expertise.

No small accomplishment. It required brilliant vision, dedicated
leadership and focus, not to mention a huge amount of work.

Unfortunately it was like the phone company. Not much real innovation
came out of Redmond Washington. If there was a good idea from a
competitor that Gates liked, he simply bought that company. If he
didn't like it, he crushed the company. We ended up with the bloated
OS we have today that tries to be all things to all people and does
not really address anyone's actual needs. Like all monopolies, they
dominate because they are virtually the only game in town.

The Govt. is in the monopoly creating business now. They have whittled
the trucking industry engine builders down to one, Cummins. Good job EPA