> >> I am thinking of instituting a class action suite
  > >> against Micro Soft and Hewlett Packard for 100 billion dollars.
  > >> Invasion of privacy guaranteed by the Constitution of the
  > >> United States. That is a billion with a B.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

 I would venture a guess that they have some pretty
smart lawyers who have already addressed the issue.
God knows they can afford them.

Tony

You can say that again. That is gates & co's forte. They are a software
house that lawyers built. "Program lightly, beg, borrow, buy or steal softly
but carry a big legal department."  (of course, like all the others who
badmouth bill & the boys, I'm just jealous. I'm sure I deserved to be worlds
most richest more than he did. - <g> I just didn't make the grade; hell, I
didn't even know they were scoring.)

jofarr, soddy tn

I am not jealous. I am mad as hell.
He got lucky. Some stupid judge granted him and his descendants a copyright on
the wheel for the next 1000 years back in the 1970s. The best
you can say about operating system software is it is purely mechanical.
Turn on the disk motor, move the head, read the data, store it
in memory etc., etc.. A 17 year limited patent would have
been sufficient.

Operating system software is not the same as fine art or the written
word. Once it becomes the defacto standard nobody has any other
choice but to use it. Let me put it another way. The Government
of the US, through shear stupidity, handed Bill a legal MONOPOLY
for the next 1000 years by granting him a copyright. Enforced
by the use of a gun. By violating the copyright law you can go to jail.
At the current time his wealth is a far larger percentage of the
US gross national product than any other robber baron that lived
in the late 1800s and early 1900s such as John D. Rockefeller of
Standard Oil or Andrew Carnegie of US Steel.

There is no end in sight. Bill is worth over $60,000,000,000 US.
That is sixty billion with a B! Sixty thousand million!  That means
he can give $1,000,000-- one million to every congressman and senator
in the US and not notice it. Petty cash. Lunch money. $500 million
is nothing to him. He owns at least one TV channel and maybe more.

The Asians and Europeans are not stupid. In Asia
Windows is banned for use by the governments. In Europe the
governments are attempting to fight back by enacting source
code access laws and fining Microsoft's non-compliance.
Microsoft's response is: "Shall we pay the fines or just buy Europe."

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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