>>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