Verily I say unto thee, that Richard Rasker spake thusly:
> Hadron wrote:
>> Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Yes, where did MS get their TCP/IP stack from again?
>>>
>>> Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
>>>
>>> How about their first (and every subsequent) Windows UI?
>>>
>>> Let's not forget Billy Gates' dumpster diving for /other
>>> people's/ "IP". Did he ever compensate those people for "all
>>> their hard work", I wonder?
>>>
>>> In fact, Gates' whole rotten empire is founded on the work of
>>> /others'/ that he embraced, extended and extinguished over the
>>> years, resulting in one big plagiarised portfolio. But then we're
>>> not allowed to talk about that, because that'd upset Microsoft's
>>> biggest fan, Hardon (or actually the second biggest, after Miguel
>>> de Icaza).
>>
>> Huh? I am certainly no MS fan.
That accounts for why you spend all your time defending them, and
attacking Free Software.
>> But interestingly I wonder what this hypocritical thinks of Ubuntu
>> or Red Hat or .... <insert hundreds of companies who make money
>> from others peoples work>.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
(Oh sorry, I forgot for one moment that I was conversing with Hardon,
COLA's resident "genius".)
The examples I gave were of Microsoft exploiting others /without/
compensation, making them the "freeloaders" that you deplore so much.
You do get that, right?
Who's the hypocrite now?
> As a rule, I don't like to get personal, but /you/ were the one
> kicking off this "freeloader" rant
He really should have that cognitive dissonance looked at by a doctor.
> It's not that these people should not be rewarded for their work and
> creativity
It's also important to remember that invariably it is /not/ those who
actually "work and create" who are being compensated most (or in many
cases, at /all/), but the suits who kidnap this work and mass duplicate
it. /They/ are the cause of all this "IP" insanity. It isn't work, and
it isn't compensation - it's carpetbaggers selling snake oil, who then
enforce the purchase of this snake oil like gangsters running a
racketeering operation.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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