>Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote:

>>James Arthur wrote:

>>>That's Bill Gate's major innovation--his solution to the
>>question "How can you make loads of money off a product
>>>that never breaks, and never wears out?"

>>>His answer is a combination of making sure the thing
>>>you buy is defective, and or deficient, or of making
>>>it obsolete, and parcelling out improvements (and
>>>even fixes) as slowly as possible.

>>>Hence changing Word and Excel's formats, changing the
>>>OS to break old applications, shipping bugs, security
>>>issues, etc.

>>>It just hit me yesterday--I've oft noted the harm he's
>>>done selling lousy software, but I just realized...he
>>>breaks our tools.  My superb DOS file compare, search
>>>routine, editor, directory utility, parallel port-
>>>operated interfaces, truly nifty ISA A/D board... broken.

>>>The advance of civilization has been one of building
>>>tool upon tool, hand tools ==> machines ==> machine
>>>tools ==> better machines ==> better tools.  Same for
>>>software.  And he breaks ours.

>>>Thanks Bill.

>>I was just reading that right before Russia invaded
>>Georgia, there was a cyberattack on Georgia's basic
>>network infrastructure launched from the Botnets that
>>Bill Gates created through the above policies.  I can
>>only conclude that Microsoft's ongoing refusal to make
>>a version of windows that cannot be remotely controlled
>>by criminals is now a serious threat to our national
>>security

>That's funny,