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There's plenty of evidence that Netscape, for example, was a bad business and made countless mistakes, and that Microsoft did not compete unfairly under the rul

by scholia 13y ago

There's plenty of evidence that Netscape, for example, was a bad business and made countless mistakes, and that Microsoft did not compete unfairly under the rules. See, for example, Winners, Losers and Microsoft by Liebowitz and Margolis or Trust on Trial by Richard McKenzie. Re Chinese workers, denial of concrete evidence is a good way to show you lost the argument. Also, that you are desperately short of common humanity.

gnaritas 13y ago
> Chinese workers, denial of concrete evidence is a good way to show you lost the argument. Also, that you are desperately short of common humanity. No, it's a good way to throw out irrelevant red herrings from someone who doesn't know how to even make an argument. Let it sink in to that tiny little brain of yours, how Chinese workers are treated by others has no bearing at all on whether Bill did something wrong in his past. Lacking any real argument, you're just flailing around foolishly looking for something to grab onto.
- scholia 13y ago
  Unfortunately you have a marked lack of understanding as well as a lack of common humanity. Some things are more important than others. Gates's "crimes" -- which were only defined as crimes after the event -- were trivia compared to those of many US corporations including Enron (1), Pfizer (2) and Monsanto (3). Anyone with a sense of proportion uses their bile to fight things that actually matter. No rational person today thinks that includes what Gates did in the 1990s. (1) Fraud and conspiracy on a massive scale, plus money laundering, insider trading and other crimes. (2) Using Nigerian children as guinea pigs. Dozens died. (3) Illegally dumping thousands of tons of highly toxic waste in landfills.
  - gnaritas 13y ago
    Unfortunately you have a marked lack of intelligence and continue to employ fallacious arguments. Murder is a more serious crime than theft, that is not cause to dismiss theft as trivia nor do any other companies crimes no matter how serious lessen Gates past crimes. Take your ignorant fallacies and irrational red herrings somewhere else. You've been told multiple times to stop throwing in those other companies as red herrings and since you're unable to have a rational discussion, we're done here. Take your ignorance somewhere else, I'm not interested.
    - scholia 13y ago
      You made a stupid comment and proved unable to justify it. Your loss.

by scholia 13y ago

gnaritas 13y ago

> Chinese workers, denial of concrete evidence is a good way to show you lost the argument. Also, that you are desperately short of common humanity. No, it's a good way to throw out irrelevant red herrings from someone who doesn't know how to even make an argument. Let it sink in to that tiny little brain of yours, how Chinese workers are treated by others has no bearing at all on whether Bill did something wrong in his past. Lacking any real argument, you're just flailing around foolishly looking for something to grab onto.

scholia 13y ago
Unfortunately you have a marked lack of understanding as well as a lack of common humanity. Some things are more important than others. Gates's "crimes" -- which were only defined as crimes after the event -- were trivia compared to those of many US corporations including Enron (1), Pfizer (2) and Monsanto (3). Anyone with a sense of proportion uses their bile to fight things that actually matter. No rational person today thinks that includes what Gates did in the 1990s. (1) Fraud and conspiracy on a massive scale, plus money laundering, insider trading and other crimes. (2) Using Nigerian children as guinea pigs. Dozens died. (3) Illegally dumping thousands of tons of highly toxic waste in landfills.
- gnaritas 13y ago
  Unfortunately you have a marked lack of intelligence and continue to employ fallacious arguments. Murder is a more serious crime than theft, that is not cause to dismiss theft as trivia nor do any other companies crimes no matter how serious lessen Gates past crimes. Take your ignorant fallacies and irrational red herrings somewhere else. You've been told multiple times to stop throwing in those other companies as red herrings and since you're unable to have a rational discussion, we're done here. Take your ignorance somewhere else, I'm not interested.
  - scholia 13y ago
    You made a stupid comment and proved unable to justify it. Your loss.