A cunning businessman who profited fro his rivals' blunders and broke lots of laws regarding monopolies. All the products he made his money from were others' ideas, starting with DOS. Windows was based on the work done at Xerox, developed by Apple which was totally selfish and shortsighted. Unix was in the hands of several squabbling companies and didn't compete at a crucial time. He escaped severe penalties due to fears about the consequences for the US economy. They continue to dominate by illegally pressuring hardware manufacturers to withold information from their competitors.
RE:Bill Gates
by sanjay shinde on Jun 20, 2008 03:37 PM Permalink
i am not agree with the opinion of R Chakravarti boss more than 70 % people in IT industry are due to him only .........they are running theri house everyhing due to him....do u really think u r smart enough to criticize...even u can employ 10 people today.......first thing of others then own.....
RE:Bill Gates
by raj on Jun 20, 2008 04:45 PM Permalink
so do you want to support a monopoly ? there would have been someone else in the place of bill gates and microsoft now. bill gates and microsoft are a convicted monopoly. tommorrow if reliance charges double or 5 times for all the plastics in india - we simply cant stop them from doing it - why ? becaus they are a monopoly in india. and just suppose you thnk you can import it cheaply - imagine if reliance blocked them with some illegal move or the other ? how would you feel ? thats precisely the case of microsoft holding the world at ransom.
RE:Bill Gates
by RS Chakravarti on Jun 20, 2008 10:41 PM Permalink
Howzu and Shinde missed the point. I didn't express any opinion except in the first half of the first sentence ("cunning businessman"). The rest are documented facts. The US Govt reasoned like Shinde and let him off. Does howzu think we shouldn't criticise anyone's achievement unless we can do something similar? That would be the end of journalism!
I'll try to provoke:
The D Company also employs a lot of people. I'm incapable of doing anything like that either.
The country would save a huge amount of foreign exchange if we could all adopt GNU/Linux and OpenOffice, etc. The Govt of India should take the lead.
The IT Industry could continue working for Microsoft and living that way.
