Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley

[Bruce.Baker@juge.com (Bruce Baker)]

 >BruceQuality 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
 >version 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 everyone in the industry a bad name.
 
People vote with their feet.  So many people who are "knowledgable" like to
scorn the "masses" the general guy, who buys this stuff and make Gates and his
company successful.  But what we really need to be doing is figure out why he
is successful and go out and beat him.  Yes it can be done and will be done.
No he will not make it easy.
 
People think his stuff is quality or they wouldnt buy word over wordperfect or
use explorer or netscape or in an earlier time buy windows over quarterdeck (is
that what it was called?) or now Win98 over linux or unix or beos, or whatever.
 
BRuce