[Gllug] Bill Gates To Leave Microsoft

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:08:23AM +0100, ben fitzgerald wrote:
> I'm no MS fan but <smashie+nicie_voice>he does a lot for charity,
> mate</smashie+nicie_voice>

But would the world have been better if all that PC "rent" money that
he forced out of people had stayed with the people?

It's nice that he's giving some of it to charity, but just remember
that for him to have that money, PCs cost hundreds of pounds more than
they should do[*], and whole economies ship literally billions of
pounds each year to a site in the north west of the USA.

Rich.

[*] Factor in not just the monopoly cost of the OS, but the amount of
time and money spent fighting its shoddy design and the monoculture
around it.

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