Message #1658

[wbcoleman]

Neither Microsoft nor Apple ever built a road. They didn't build that.
Neither Microsoft nor Apple ever built a bridge. They didn't build that.
Neither Microsoft nor Apple ever built an airport. They didn't build that.

Microsoft DID build a predatory and insane patent system (created "intellectual property" as a legal concept but only after they robbed Apple of theirs; etc. etc.), created, which is the government.

Microsoft DID take a government programming language, CP/M wanked it off a bit and then claimed it was MSDOS. Microsoft didn't build that, it was still mostly CP/M all the way through MSDOS 5.

Microsoft DID swipe other people's technologies FIRST, and THEN wanked the legal system to include "intellectual property" so that nobody could do to Microsoft what Microsoft did to others.  Windows is STILL Apple's intellectual property, but stolen with legal blessing.

Microsoft sure as hell didn't build squat.

Wow, looks like you're as ideological and economically illiterate as O himself.

If you are really incapable of perceiving the vast benefit created by Microsoft and Apple, quite independent of the government, then it's a sad commentary.