Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[David Phillips <David_Phillips@nexus.amaq.org.au>]

On 6/23/99 5:55 AM, Bruce.Baker wrote:

>I didn't see this movie but people who poopoo Bill Gates are missing a 
>lot.
>Gates obviously does a lot of things right or his company wouldn't be 
>where it
>is.  This is the pure and simple fact.  Now you may not like the man, or 
>you
>may be jealous of the man and his wealth.  But the fact is he has kept 
>quality
>very high and he has satisfied his customers.   Otherwise people would 
>have
>bought other software.  Now they may not have a choice about operating 
>systems,
>but they do on software. 

But the fact is he has kept quality very high ///??? 

Quality what quality if you read the book I have about his firm done some
years back you woud realize that he releases beta version as full versions
and has been a brake on the development of the computer platform because of
his manner of pirating other peoples software... Why develop anything for
the platform .. if you do he will copy it and say too you 'if you do not like
it sue me'... this is a man who spends 750 million dollars a year fighting
lawsuits from people he has pirated software from.Lets face facts this man 
is detrimental to the development of the computer platform as a whole and is 
giving everone in the industry a bad name.

It is I admit not a bad scam for someone to get the majority of the
public to accept mediocrity as being acceptable. But just because all the 
lemmings are going over the cliff to their deaths does not make it correct.





David Phillips
Vice President/Promotion Officer
Apple Macintosh Association of QLD
Australia