Google Groups Home
Help | Sign in
sci.electronics.design
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Message from discussion A serious threat to our national security
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Guy Macon  
View profile
  More options Aug 20 2008, 2:30 am
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
From: Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:24 +0000
Local: Wed, Aug 20 2008 2:30 am
Subject: A serious threat to our national security
Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

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

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


    Reply to author    Forward  
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2009 Google