Subj : XP Home -> XP Pro
To   : Tom Walker
From : Robert Couture
Date : Mon Nov 15 2004 01:06 pm

Tom Walker -> Robert Couture wrote:

 TW> I don't think you really understasnd much Ecomomics.

Neither do you, apparently.

 TW> So you think people should give away the "Sweat of their Labors". While
 TW> it is all mental and not much Physical it does take a GREAT deal of
 TW> work to produce the very complex Software we all use. In some cases
 TW> tens thousands of times more Man Hours. And then there is the Thousands
 TW> of Hours needed for the Patches and Fixes.

So?  The OS is substandard.  It requires all of these man hours of work for 
patches and fixes due to years upon years of poor programminf standards.

I have zero sympathy for a multi-billion dollar corporation that gained it's 
wealth from predatory practices.

Especially when that company profitted byu releasing poor quality, non-secure 
products for high prices.  The ridiculous amount of security flaws and open 
expliots is pathetic.

The billions of dollars that Microsoft has cost companies and individuals world 
wide is criminal.  Yet they don't have to be held accountable for their poor 
quality software.

Why?  Cause it says so in their shrink wrapped cannot read be fore you open and 
if you open it, you agree to be bound by it illegal licensing.

I just wish someone with enough clout would challenge these stipud shrink 
wrapped licenses.

 ->> Their own pricing structure has a great deal to do with the rampant
 TW> piracy of
 ->> their OS.

 TW> The Rampant Piracy is the REAL market of GREED. Percentage wise they
 TW> make FAR more per Pirated CD than the REAL owner of the Intelectual
 TW> Property.

The greed you yell about is that of Microsoft.  Yes, they back themselves into 
the corner they are now in with their over-priced, low quality products that 
are still full of security vulnerabilites and softwaare bugs.

 TW> Adn Piracy is all about Rampany DISHONESTY!!

And Microsofyt is about honesty?  Please!  They one of the most dishonest 
coporations in the world.  Why else would there be anti-trust lawsuits against 
them?

 TW>  We are a World of Selfish, Selfcentered, Hurray for me SCREW you
 TW> THIEVES!!!

Yes, and a bunch of the worst offenders rank at the top of the Microsoft 
corporate ladder.  Your point?

A word of advice.  Cut down on the caffiene, man!  :-D

Robert.
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