Bill Gates on Picketty

[Loren Pechtel]

Who are all the people he stole from?

While he didn't "steal" per se, the monopolistic practices of Microsoft did force consumers to buy MSDOS. Manufacturers that wanted to sell any computers with MSDOS were forced to license a copy of MSDOS on all computers they sold even if it was bundled with a different OS. So consumers were forced to pay for it unless they were able to build their own PC compatible computer from scratch and install another OS.

He stole. Look at the lawsuits from his victims.

 

[NobleSavage]

While he didn't "steal" per se, the monopolistic practices of Microsoft did force consumers to buy MSDOS. Manufacturers that wanted to sell any computers with MSDOS were forced to license a copy of MSDOS on all computers they sold even if it was bundled with a different OS. So consumers were forced to pay for it unless they were able to build their own PC compatible computer from scratch and install another OS.

He stole. Look at the lawsuits from his victims.

Can you point to anything specific or is it just run of the mill patent trolls?

Check out the smart phone patent wars (one thing is clear, we need to reform IP laws)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

 

[Loren Pechtel]

He stole. Look at the lawsuits from his victims.

Can you point to anything specific or is it just run of the mill patent trolls?

Check out the smart phone patent wars (one thing is clear, we need to reform IP laws)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

How about the disk compression? That was directly stolen. They had to pay IIRC ~$120 million but they succeeded in destroying the company that originally came up with it.

 

[NobleSavage]

Can you point to anything specific or is it just run of the mill patent trolls?

Check out the smart phone patent wars (one thing is clear, we need to reform IP laws)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

How about the disk compression? That was directly stolen. They had to pay IIRC ~$120 million but they succeeded in destroying the company that originally came up with it.

The jury concluded it wasn't "willful" and MS also won a counter suit. I wouldn't describe it a "Bill Gates stealing..."