[luau] NEWS: (conference) transcript from gates interview

[Mark Kellman]

Gates is the champion of a completely captialistic structure of commerce.  
Fortunately, there are laws which prevent and punish the monopolisitic 
business strategies MS continues to live by.  More lawsuits will follow 
against MS, and it will be mired in legislative battles as public and 
organizational pressure continues to grow.


>From: "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at flex.com>
>Reply-To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
>To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
>Subject: [luau] NEWS: (conference) transcript from gates interview
>Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:46:17 -1000
>
>This is one of the sections where he talks about os, the gpl, and
>espouses some propaganda...
>
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2002/04-17glc.asp
>
>"One thing that we get people discussing with us a lot is how to create
>jobs around IT activity. And I think you will see some countries who
>really believe in the capitalistic approach; that is, that software
>should generate jobs, and government R&D should generate jobs, so that
>government R&D should be done on a basis that it can be commercialized.
>There's a faction against that, the so-called general GPL source license
>free software foundation, that says that these other countries other
>than the U.S. should devote R&D dollars in the so-called open approach,
>that means you can never commercialize that software. And it is an
>interesting choice to deny -- for a country to deny itself the benefits
>of these high-paying jobs and the kind of taxes that let countries fund
>their universities, and fund general research that then goes to renew
>that pool of commercial R&D. Clearly there's an ecosystem there that has
>worked extremely well in the United States, and has probably been the
>unique thing that has let that push forward. And there is now a
>recognition that it's really a question of policy of allowing the
>so-called capitalistic approach to win the day there."  -bill gates




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